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    "id": 1444350,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir. I am saying this just to understand how culture can really collide. Somebody gave us a view on cows within the Maasai Community, and we could not understand what this law was trying to propose when it said that if you are a widower, you had one wife and you lose her, that if you marry, you lose your cows. The Maasai could not understand. It was like, even if I was to marry another wife after the death of my spouse, the cows belong to me, so there is no way you can tell me that I will lose my cows. So, I do not know how Sen. Veronica Maina, when you appear before the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, you will clarify some of these cultural issues that may have a clash with the proposals in the law. However, I know where you are coming from. This is an era where the boy-child and the girl-child want to be treated equally. Therefore, the intention is good. You want the benefits that accrue to the widower to accrue also to the widow. If there are properties that will pass over after a process happens--- Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the law is simply telling us that if a widow remarries and the life interest ceases and passes over to the children, the same should be applicable to the widower. Literally speaking, what happens to a wife who becomes a widow, gets another man and marries? The same should happen to a man who becomes a widower, but gets another woman and remarries. The law is just trying to bring equality to the spouses in a marriage. Again, I do not know what answers you will get, but that was a very interesting and emotive discussion about how you deal with the properties of a surviving spouse. I do not have a lot to say on Clause 6 because it is simply trying to give us how to distribute the property of a deceased person in the event that there are no children left behind, and automatically, such a property should go to the father and mother. What I heard women telling us that time - I do not know whether that is what has been happening - they were saying that there has been this tendency of Mzee saying, “If The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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