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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "men walk empty handed. Women have worked hard together with their men, but when the marriage is on rocks, the properties are usually left to the lady and she even gets much more. It is because men do not know that they are entitled to maintenance. So, men should also seek maintenance during the end of their marriages. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a raft of reasons for dissolution of these marriages. In the Muslim situation, if a wife was to get pregnant and the husband is not responsible, at the time of the marriage, that is a ground for the dissolution of that marriage. Then of course, there is consummation. If you do not consummate your marriage, then it is a ground. The prohibited relationship that hon. Kaluma mentioned, those are criminal offences because some cultural practices are repugnant to justice and morality. This message should go out clearly to those people who think that they can take their underage girls and marry them. This is rampant and it happens every day. We need some firm controls. We need to enforce the law against child marriages because they are there and they are many. They equal the genital mutilation. Our society has gone the wrong way. There is decay in that. The other ground is incurable insanity. As a Committee, we looked at this and wondered whether once you go berserk, that is a ground for your divorce. But then the Bill now provides that this will be certified by two doctors. A Psychiatrist must certify that your condition is incurable or the recovery in improbable. Therefore, it is a ground because, again, we want to protect marriages and at the same time, we do not want to get people into situations whereby they cannot get out of it. There is also exceptional depravity by spouse. These grounds are not the usual adultery, negligence, desertion, but it is also cruelty. This cruelty need not only be against your spouse but even against your children. I know there are families where husbands or wives are very cruel to their children. We have had instances of this. We know about ladies who have children outside marriage and when they go into another marriage, they hide the children or do not mention that there are children outside the marriage. You will find the husbands are very cruel when those children join the family. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill goes out of its way to protect children outside marriage. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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