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    "id": 32343,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/32343/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Bill. It is very clear that there are so many assets that are unclaimed. The reason for this is that, in Kenya, most people die intestate and there is no regulatory framework of reuniting these unclaimed assets with the potential inheritors. This Bill seeks to create a regulatory framework. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is clear that most of the benefiting entities would oppose this Bill. Amongst those are the insurance companies, banks and even some trusts. There are a number of people whose lives get ruined not because there is nothing to take care of them but because there is no mechanism of uniting them with what would have been ordinarily bequeathed to them. We would be failing in our duties as legislators if we do not provide a framework through which we re-unite members of the society and what ordinarily should belong to them. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are people who have left this country and gone out. It is important that a framework is put in place. I want to agree with the"
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