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    "id": 555843,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555843/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2214,
        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
        "slug": "moses-malulu-injendi"
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    "content": "marriage certificate used to cost Kshs200, but it now costs Kshs600. Search of a marriage certificate used to cost Kshs100 but it now costs Kshs500. When you look at all these fees, the effect is that the person who intends to marry, in this case a man, has to take care of these costs. This inhibits most of the persons who would have got married. I am speaking from a Christian point of view. I am a Catholic. If you are not married in church, you will miss on many activities in the church. For example, as a Catholic, you are not recognised fully as a member of the church. Most of us who are Catholics here will realise that when it comes to the church mass, we have three parts in a mass. One of them involves sharing of the bread. When you are not officially married in church, you cannot participate in the sharing of the bread. This makes some people feel like they have not participated fully in the church mass. Most of the people who are affected in this are persons of lower and middle classes. Because of this, they are discouraged from getting married. Apart from this, persons who are mostly affected are women, who have always been marginalised. When it comes to marriage, women feel honoured when they get a marriage certificate. This has become an excuse for most men not to commit themselves to marriage. The spirit of this Act was to heal this. I do not want to take much time talking about this. I am urging this House to urge the Government to decentralise these offices to constituencies and reduce the cost and the procedures in giving notice. I ask my brother, Hon. Isaac Mwaura, who has gone through this process and is wedding on 27th July 2015 to tell us his experience. He has gone through this process, which is so tedious and has experience to share with us in terms of what people are going through under the Marriage Act."
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