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    "id": 417411,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Chairman and his Committee for having done a thorough job and being able to bring a Bill that has been there for ages. I am just learning that almost seven statutes have been collapsed and summarized into one Bill. We thank the lawyers especially, hon. Kaluma, for giving us insight as regards these issues. These laws, as the Chairman read out, are as old as 1900. This has been the reason for all these problems that we have had in the marriage institution. If this Bill is passed into law, it will address most of these issues which have been happening. Every other day in our constituency, you will find very young mothers or a woman of two weeks coming to seek assistance because the husband has taken off. I think we need to ask the male spouse to also start taking up responsibilities because it is very sad when such women come to us for help. Sometimes I ask where their husbands are because they are helpless. They say that there is nothing they can do and that they took off and they are not bothered. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also agree with hon. Kaluma when he says that we need to look into this issue from both sides. We do not need to look at it as the hon. Lady said. I am a father of four girls and I am supporting this Bill for the benefit of my daughters whom I know one day will get married and they will be protected by this law once it comes into effect. Most of us and most of our constituents have not had an opportunity to read these laws and what it takes for them to solemnize or register their marriage in a legal way. Most of the marriages have been done under customary law. As it has been pointed out by the Chairman---"
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