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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muchai",
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        "legal_name": "George Mukuru Muchai",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise in support of this Bill. I would like to observe that it seeks to bring sanity during the subsistence of marriage and gives proper direction as what would happen in the unfortunate event that a marriage comes to an end. However, even as much as I would like to support it, I would like to make an observation that it is silent on some aspects of marriage that are critically important and need to be addressed by the Bill. This Bill assumes that all is well while both spouses are alive. It does not envisage a situation where marriage can be entered into, children brought forth, but thereafter one spouse passes on. Let me cite the example of a wife passing on and leaving young children, then the man decides to remarry and the children do not get along with their father’s wife. Much as we would like to bring harmony in the ownership of property, we have witnessed cases where children who have been left by their mother and their father decided to remarry being subjected to frustrations and eventually being deprived of their 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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