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    "id": 425109,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/425109/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 77,
        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "The other issue that we had an issue with then and has been captured is cohabitation. We were saying that you should not take somebody’s daughter or son and let them stay with you and then after ten years after using them, you just discard them like toilet paper. If you stay with them, you have an obligation to marry them, make them man and wife. We were even saying that even the two years that were being proposed was too long. We wanted it to be that if you take my daughter, after six months, you have to marry her. So, I am very happy that this Bill has come. I do not have to belabor the point. I think I have debated these points with the stakeholders. Again, like somebody said, I think it was hon. Katoo who mentioned the Marriage Bill of 1902 which was a colonial Marriage Bill. When the late President Kenyatta asked the Parliament of 1967 to sit down and amend it, I do not know why the men then, who were the majority in Parliament, felt like they were being invaded. They were not being invaded. In fact, this Bill protects both men and women who are in that union. I really want to thank everybody who has supported this Bill. I feel that something that I started so many years ago is finally coming to an end. I will not even go further because today I will go home a happy girl knowing that the family Bills have become a reality to this country."
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