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

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

 


 
 

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