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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this very important Bill. As African community, it is only the family that we have to boast about. When you compare Africa to the western world, a lot of times we say that we might not have anything else, but we have family values. That is very important. This law comes in to strengthen the family. Although we cannot say that we will guarantee happy families because of this law, because people will still have to work on their marriages, but at least this law comes in to consolidate all the statutes that have existed. I am happy that Clause 10 of this Bill actually prohibits incest. We have had many instances and challenges with regard to incest. What I think we should consider adding to the list of those that are prohibited--- Apart from cousins, grandchildren and great grandchildren, I will be proposing at the Committee Stage that we also add explicitly step children. I see here “people adopted”, but sometimes you have not adopted children legally, but you are married to their mother or father. So, to engage with them should be indicated in this law as part of those that are prohibited under incest. I see that promise to marry is not binding, but this should not really be permission for us to just promise people, say, giving them promise number one, promise number two and promise number three that we will marry them and then end up disillusioning them. So, we should not take advantage of this law to keep disillusioning men and women by giving empty promises. Hon. Nyikal spoke, and I supported him, about the right to be given notice when an additional spouse is coming. Having been born in a polygamous family, I know that what made polygamous families work in the old age was really the fact that it was a settled agreement that we are going to have a second wife coming. The first wife would agree and so when the second or third person comes, there was already general consensus. The kind of wars we see presently is because people just go out there and women do not even know that they have co-wives. They end up learning of this after The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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