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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "discussion and said: “Could you people look at this issue of registration under the Marriage Bill?” I must say that this matter had sort of escaped my attention. What he described was simply horrendous. We are worrying about the fee structure here which I will comment on, but I am concerned more about the overall cost, what it takes to get this done. If there are only 12 centers in Kenya, it means that each centre serves 3.5 million people. If you look at the area, it means that each center serves an average of over 1,000 square kilometers. This is completely ridiculous in today’s Kenya. For a country that is moving towards Vision 2030 and middle income industrialized country, these kinds of things are retrogressive. In my view, these centers need to be increased dramatically to no less than one per each sub-county and, perhaps, a lot more within each sub-county. I come from a region where sub-counties are not that large but they are large enough to cause significant travel even within the sub-county. When you put one center in western Kenya, Kakamega, and somebody is in Busia Town or Budalangi, where my hon. friend comes from, it is going to cost about Ksh1,500 for a return journey. The stages involved are not concurrent; they are sequential. You finish one, go home, come back another time and so on. You may find the officer unwell on that day, or he may have gone for a funeral, or is getting married on that particular day; it will mean that day is wasted and you will have to go back again."
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