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    "id": 557104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1356,
        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Government has made it very difficult for the young men to get marriage certificates. We need to do everything possible to make it as simple as possible so that when it is time for people to get married, they can get the marriage certificates. That way, we can have strong families that stand, stay and do their things together. Another issue that is of concern to me is the fact that we, as the Government or the leaders in this country, are not working hard to make sure that we bring our families together. For example, when you look at the issue of empowerment, we are focusing on women empowerment and leaving out men empowerment. The women have all those opportunities to get money. But the men do not have any opportunities or resources to build themselves. We need to start empowering the family as a unit. We should not only empower women and the youth, leaving out the men who are becoming disadvantaged in this society. If our goal is to make sure that we have a strong nation, a strong family is the way to go. That should start by making it easy for our people to access marriage certificates. We should also look at ways of empowering the family as a unit and not empowering individuals as women and youth. If we do that, we will be building a strong family. For that, I strongly support this Motion. I also want to add my voice on the issue of us, as Members of Parliament, demeaning our status. When you say “urge”, you are begging the same people that we gave the job to implement what we want. We need to start looking for other ways of putting these things down. When you say “urge”, you are begging them to do our mandate as the representatives of the people. We are here to represent the interests of the people. When we speak here, we do not speak for ourselves. We speak for the millions of Kenyans who sent us here. They should do exactly what we want them to do. By urging them, we will not be doing anything. This will influence the counties. We are decentralising this service to the counties. We should bring amendments. The senators are the ones who deal with county governments and they should work. They should bring amendments to ensure that this is implemented at the county level, so that we do not have to worry about talking and eventually having nothing done."
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