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    "id": 557022,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/557022/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1750,
        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "institution of marriage is to our people. We have a lot of information on what is affecting young people who want to get married. The laws that we make in this House are meant to assist the people that we represent. So, as we make laws, we must be very alive to the fact that the laws are supposed to benefit the people and not to punish them. There are several laws that have passed in this House, but later on we find a lot of complaints from members of the public. The Marriage Act of 2014 is one such law. Eventually what has happened is that the cost of marriage has gone up. I shared some information with one of the bishops of the Africa Inland Church (AIC) and he told me that there are very many complications and bureaucracies that they have to follow in order for one to get married. He said, first and foremost, the bishops or officers conducting marriages have to be registered and it costs them money to get registered. Then he talked about the marriage certificate booklets that cost a lot of money; that is over Kshs20,000. For any couple to get married, both the man and the woman have to get the certificate from the officer who will conduct the marriage then travel to the registration centre to get accredited and be allowed to start the process."
}