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    "id": 417368,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/417368/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
        "slug": "george-peter-opondo-kaluma"
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    "content": "repealing seven statutes that deal with the issue of marriage. We can have one legal text that any Kenyan who seeks to marry can put his hands on and really determine the regime of law under which they want to marry. What pleases more from this Bill is that, for once, all forms of marriages are registrable. Currently, only people who wed in church and the people who marry within the context of the civil marriages in the Attorney-General’s Chambers have a Marriage Certificate. We, therefore, have a situation where the decent women of this country married to very good Kenyans, at the point of seeking to confirm marriage for statutory or other purposes, have to get some lawyer somewhere to do an affidavit reciting how they have been in a customary marriage with another Kenyan for 15 or 20 years. It is something that I believe has given lawyers money, but really it is not a good thing. For once we are saying that every form of marriage, for as long as you transact it within the parameters of law that are defined in this Bill, will qualify for marriage---"
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