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    "id": 557081,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion as moved by our colleague Hon. Injendi. I want to support this Motion. I would like to indicate that according to Marriage Act, 2014, all marriages must be registered. They include customary marriages, civil marriages, Christian marriages, Islamic marriages and Hindu marriages. The Act does not favour customary marriage. Before that marriage is given a certificate, the people who go through the route of customary marriage must take six months to complete the rituals and to convince the marriage officer or the registrar that they are up to task. The Mover has articulated that marriage services should be decentralized to even sub-county levels. According to the Act, the Registrar of Marriages, who is an appointee of the Cabinet Secretary (CS), has been given leeway because he can as well appoint marriage officers at either national, county or sub-county levels. This is just a matter of regulations. As the 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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