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    "id": 557134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I would like to thank Hon. Injendi for bringing this Motion. We have a problem in this country, in terms of where the registrars are located. In my case, the Registrar is located in Embu. It is not right. We want people to get married. The Bible, in the Book of Matthew, Chapter 19, verses 4 to 6 states that a man and a woman were created and a man has to leave his father to become one flesh with his lady. The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 18, verse 22, goes further to say that a man who finds a wife, finds a good thing and obtains favour. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to devolve the services not just to the counties, but also to the constituencies. That is because our people cannot be travelling all the way to the county headquarters to have their marriages registered. The cost is prohibitive because it is Kshs25,000 per booklet. That is very expensive. It should be made cheaper so that we do not have “ mpango wa kando” but rather, proper wives who can---"
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