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    "id": 557062,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F. K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Therefore, it is important that the procedure and the cost of having a family are reduced. I also want to say that it is good to have this decentralized to the sub-county level since it will be cheaper. A marriage certificate binds two people together and if we make it difficult, as most Members have said, people will find an easier way of getting married; the “come-we-stay” way. After that, you will find people having problems in marriage and fighting day and night because there is nothing binding them. You also have the risk of people moving from one partner to the other. In Kiswahili we call it mpango wa kando . Mpango wa kando is encouraged because people move from one partner to the other because they have nothing that binds them. The other effect of mpango wa kando is the spread of diseases. It is important to have the procedure and the cost reduced so that we can do that at the sub-county level. I also know that certificates are normally issued by mainstream churches. Much as we want to have this at the sub-county and district levels, we could have marriage certificates being availed at mainstream churches like the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, the Pentecostal Assemblies of God (PAG) and the rest. They can issue the certificates instead of having to go to the county level because they issue them after all. Most of these marriage announcements are made in the respective churches, therefore they can be given the certificates so that once one gets married, he is given the certificate and the returns are sent to the Registrar. The biggest problem we have had in the past, particularly in my area is where you find that either the husband or the wife has died. If it is husband, you find more than 10 ladies claiming that they are the official wives married to the deceased. We have had very embarrassing situations where you find that before a man is buried, more than five women coming and say they are the official wives and such like things. I remember seeing a drama recently in Western Kenya, where a prominent person died and more than three women came forward, each one of them claiming to be the rightful wife of the deceased. It was very embarrassing. The burial was delayed since the family members did not know who of the three was the rightful wife. So, it is important to have procedures and costs reduced in marriages so that we can have disciplined families and Kenyans particularly the youths. That will stop people from moving from one partner to another. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Motion."
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