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    "id": 27954,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/27954/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me take this earliest opportunity to congratulate the Minister for a job well done in keeping within the spirit of the Constitution. I see that the Minister now has granted the Director power to provide consular services in missions abroad. I am sure now there will be no war between him and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to whose duty that is for. That is an advantage well taken care of. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 12 which talks about widows and widowers; people whose wives or husbands have died, who have met the requirement before the death and want to become Kenyan citizens, I see that as a serious loophole. All somebody would want to do is to get information of a dead person and claim they have been married for seven years. I have lived out of this country; to be specific, I saw what people did to become citizens of America when I lived there. I know friends who travelled on documents of dead people just because of these restrictions. In Clause 11, one of the conditions is that the marriage was solemnized under a system of law recognized in Kenya. There are some marriages which do not have documentation. If I wanted to become a citizen of Kenya, I just cross the border somewhere in Gem and claim a customary marriage. That needs to be looked into."
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