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    "id": 417360,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Gathecha",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Annah Nyokabi Gathecha",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill which is not only timely but has come of age. Most of the laws on marriage we are using have been there since 1900. Surely, as hon. Members, we need to review some of these laws. The institution of marriage has come under pressure and there have been significant changes over the years. It is imperative for this House to rise and protect this particular institution. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when we look at the number of abused and neglected children, especially those within marriage; we find that we need to have a just society with responsible individuals in this country. We need people who are going to accept their obligations as members of this society, to provide for their families and to pay their taxes. They need to be honest and upright citizens. We must protect them within the institutions in which we raise them. We know and understand that the family is the basic unit of society. Without it, we are not a society. What are we going to do then if we continue at this rate whereby we are not looking out for the protection of this institution? The husband and wife or parents within marriage are under threat. In fact, they are almost like the threatened boy child of Kiambu. When a woman and a man contract a marriage--- We expect as women that you are getting into a monogamous situation when you have a marriage in a church, but many times you find that when the husbands are six feet under, we have five or six different parallel families. Now, other than your three or four children, five other families come forward with children the same age as your own that were secret and kept away and we did not know about them. However, they are the children of your spouse and issues come up mainly with regard to matrimonial property sharing. In terms of recognition, I am sure there will be no male hon. Member who will oppose this Bill because it finally gives men what they have always wanted, that is, an opportunity to have more than one wife if that is their choice. Many of them say that they want to get consent---"
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