News just developing says that Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial marriage bill legalising polygamy braking civil law, when a man was allowed only one wife to line with customs law, where polygamous is a trend........
The amendment to the bill was surrounded by controversy supported by male MP's,where all men are allowed to take more wives without consulting there first wives as per opposed to traditional
The bill bans all marriages under 18 years and all marriages including customary unions must be registered.Legalizing polygamy,allowing men to marry without consulting other spouses but also a woman is entitled of up to 50% of property acquired during marriage.it also specifies marriage is between a man and a woman and does not ban custom of an infertile woman marrying a younger woman as per we are used to...........
some proposals were drooped banning bride price payments, recognizing cohabiting and come-we-stay
marriages but this brought a heated debate in parliament last month arguing that a decision to take on another wife would affect the whole family, including the financial position of other spouses.
Christian leaders were too opposed to the bill arguing the president not to sign it into law, claiming it it undermines Christian principles of marriage and family"......................the tone of that bill, if it becomes law, would be demeaning to women since it does not respect the principle of equality of spouses in the institution of marriage.......................," Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, from the (NCCK),
there have a major talk back in the streets and in board rooms since this has become a law...................................................
most women now be in a capacity to defend there men,there love and family not to fall in the gluttonous trap of there men...............
PHOTO COURTESY: capital f.m
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