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    "id": 555874,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1007,
        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
        "slug": "christine-oduor-ombaka"
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    "content": "I imagine that a man with eight wives will have to pay quite a lot to register all the wives. This becomes very expensive. I sympathise with the men who marry more than one wife, because registering them all will be more expensive than they had expected. So, this needs to be reduced. We also need to take the offices that register marriages to the county. Devolution must be made to work. We must, therefore, have the Registrar of Marriages establishing marriage offices in the villages. It is very important to do so because many women who are not registered find it very difficult to do anything for themselves, including getting a national identity card. That is why, again, you find a lot of young women getting into come-we-stay marriages or cohabitation. They are avoiding paying money to register their marriages because it is expensive. If we want marriages to remain stable, we should legalise them and make sure that everybody is comfortable in his or her marriage. We must devolve registration of marriages. Since the law was passed last year, I have taken it upon myself to teach women that if they are in a polygamous marriage, they should try their best to register because it is good for them as the law will protect them when problems occur in the marriage. So, registration of marriages is very important to a couple. A man must have a legalised marriage, so should a woman. If we make it very expensive and locate the offices very far away from the people, marriage services may not be accessible. Most marriages will be based on come-we-stay and cohabitation. That is not what we want. Therefore, let us reduce the cost of registration and take the registration centres to the sub-counties. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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