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    "id": 555891,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "I want to thank Hon. Injendi greatly for bringing this Motion because it draws our attention to the kinds of things that we sometimes pass not thinking about whom we are talking about. The per capita income of this country is over US$1,000, which means when you bring it down to the equivalent on a per day basis, it is about US$3 per day or about Ksh200. Remember these are indices greatly influenced by billionaires we have in this country. They are not influenced by the wanjikus. They are greatly influenced by the billionaires even to appear to be US$3 or Ksh300 a day. When you impose this kind of cost and we know the distribution of incomes, it falls mostly on men. So, within a family, when marriage is being proposed, these are costs that disproportionately fall on the man. Forget these urban class weddings where rich people are eager to marry off their daughters and may foot all these costs related to marriages; these take place within the big cities where the centers also exist. What we are doing, therefore, is that we are imposing a burden on people that maybe equivalent to their three years per capita income to get married. This is absolutely ridiculous. I think that we should move this to a point where it is close to zero. If people want to have exceptional types of arrangement which they have in urban centers, you have seen that they can go ahead and do that, but let us not make this difficult for those who want to legally get together through marriage, or solemnizing the marriages they may have been in for a long time. It has been mentioned from aspects of culture, tradition and religion about marriage being the unit of the family. Marriage is an important unit of currency in 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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