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    "id": 557078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakuleu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisropher Doye Nakuleu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with regard to the cost of executing marriages, as it is now, it is extremely exorbitant. It limits and discourages people from formalizing their marriages. It makes marriages very expensive and only a preserve of the rich. Therefore, there should be every effort to amend the Act to make marriages affordable. With regard to the level of decentralization, there is every need to decentralize those units or centres for conducting marriages to every sub-location or even location. Government officers who are presiding over those institutions should also be devolved. We cannot devolve funds without devolving services. Marriage services should be done well. To facilitate marriages, we need to come up with a scheme to facilitate issuance of identity cards so as to ensure that the people who are wedding are of the right legal age. That is meant to avoid incidences where people wed minors. The use of Huduma Centres for marriage applications should be enhanced. There was an argument by one of the Members that a marriage must have a witness. The Huduma Centres can act as registration centres. Then there will be institutions to assign where you will go and partake of your marriage. However, the Huduma Centres can act as the central place where registration is done. Then the ceremony is assigned to various churches or institutions in various parts of the country. Therefore, to facilitate or fast-track marriages, it must be made voluntary, easy and affordable. That will enhance the stability of the family unit, society and the country at large. I wish to register my support for the Motion, but with an amendment that we should not urge. Rather, we should “resolve”. That is because the institutions that implement those things are the core rivals of this House. Therefore, if we give an exit point where they interpret our communication in a very terse manner, then they will have every opportunity to evade implementing our directive."
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