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The government in Kenya has on a new law on marriage. It has many female politicians very angry. The Marriage Bill men to as many wives as they . Men will soon be able to other women without even their wife. There was a big argument between the male and female politicians. Many female lawmakers out of the debate in anger. The law was going to make it illegal to have more than one wife, but male lawmakers their mind. One male politician said the law was fair to women. He said that for the first time, women who get divorced would have 30 per cent of the family house and other things of value to the couple.

Kenyan politician Samuel Chepkong'a the new law simply alive Kenya's traditions. He told reporters: "When you marry an African woman, she must the second one is on the way, and a third wife. This is Africa." Kenya's Nation newspaper said the law did not Kenya as a modern country. It wrote: "This is a [backwards] move that is simply us back into the Dark Ages, at a time when we should be family values." Female politician Sopian Tuya said the law unfair to the first wife because the second wife would all the money. She also warned men about in secret, saying: "We know that men afraid of women's tongues more than anything else."

 


 
 

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