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    "id": 417345,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/417345/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1154,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
        "slug": "samuel-kiprono-chepkonga"
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    "content": "This is the first time that the customary law has been codified. This law has always been found on precedents so that you do not know what you are expected as a man that is married or as a woman who has been married under the customary law. For instance, you do not know at what point you expect your marriage which is a Christian Marriage or Hindu Marriage converted into customary law where someone comes and--- Many times men celebrate marriage with an intention of converting them into polygamous marriages. However, the Marriage Bill as it is proposed at the moment provides an opportunity for those who seek to celebrate their marriages purely as monogamous and those who seek to celebrate their marriage potentially as polygamous. So, as a woman if you celebrate your marriage under the customary law, you expect another wife to come into the house without notice being given to you. The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs looked at Clause 44(4) which proposes that under customary law in a marriage that is celebrated under the customary law, a wife will be expected to give approval or consent to the husband to bring a second, third and fourth wife. We thought that was very uncustomary as far as we were concerned. They were seeking to codify civil marriages under customary law. So, we proposed that---"
}