Update on the question of being allowed to remove the remains of Edward Wanzala

Update

On the question of being allowed to remove the remains of Edward Wanzala

by Mohamed Jiwa at 7:30pm 20th December, 2013

I went with Mike Wambwere to the complaints department at the hospital and the kind person there referred me to the Credit Control department where we met Mr Alois.  Mr Alois has assured me that the hospital does not have a policy of detaining the remains of those who have passed away.  He has asked us to give him the results of the harambee (fund-raiser) and seems agreeable to a payment plan.  He is not going to demand the whole amount as stipulated on the bill.  He would, however, like to be presented with a payment plan and the results of our harambee for the expenses incurred towards laying Edward to rest.

Waiting to start the fund-raising at 5.45pm I saw a picture, shown to me by Mama Raveena, of Edward.  It is an exquisite photograph of a man totally dedicated to his purpose in life.  I intend to take a picture of the lovely family (tomorrow) and then publish the photographs.

(I could not stay for the fund-raiser to begin owing to prior commitments.)


Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

Anyone Advise How to Release the Late Edward Wanjala and his Family before Christmas

True Story in Nairobi of a Swimming Instructor
His body is being held in the hospital for Kenya Sh 1.1 million

by Mohamed Jiwa at 3:30pm 20th December, 2013

We seem to be held up by a hospital securely holding the mahiti (body awaiting last rites) of a husband and a father who died recently from a brain haemorrhage, against a bill of KES.1.1million (USD 13,000).  It's nearly Christmas and our lives have suddenly changed.  And we just want to take him home and bury him.


It is already 19th December, 2013 and there are 6 days to go (I drafted this yesterday so read one day before).  The hospital is holding his body until an arrangement has been agreed upon to pay the bill.  The family and I met with friends of Edward at his home at the Aga Khan Primary School where he worked as a swimming coach.  They are all his students.  He has taught countless children to swim, gently and cleverly, and he could teach an adult to swim in four days, with ease:  He was the best coach I have ever met, the kindest and most generous, a conscientious man, a GENTLEMAN.  Edward was a teacher in the true sense and there are too few of these.


Edward lived only to the age of 40.  People are dying on this planet at the rate of 107 per minute (nearly two [1.78 to be exact] per second).  If most of us are members of the 99% (the marginalised - who do not participate in national sabotage by corruption and partisanship  -and the poor) then most of these deaths are probably affected by untoward incidents of one sort or another, especially in the dustbins we call our cities which politicians, mostly egregiously inflated and programmed to fail, are unable to rise to the challenge in helping to clean our spaces and inject them with life support.

Could this sort of contempt of ethics be affecting our hospitals, too?  Perhaps there are many ordinary people who have died and whose families have been cut off from them to the extent that they are unable to find a closure by performing the rites and rituals that attend such eventualities.  This is true in the case of Edward's family.  The hospital seems coolly to have declined to release his mahiti until an arrangement has been made to clear the bill.  This put all of us in a panic.


Hospitals know that they make their profits from the obscenely rich who do not contribute to society where contributions are urgently needed, when they should also take on the role of acting as mediators between such obscenities and the needs of the poor who have equal right to access.  People don't want to get involved with situations like Edward's for reasons beyond the scope of this story.


This may just be another death in many but why should it be more special?  Together with Francis, Alex and Michael and others, I would like to stress that the hospital should, to act appropriately in all respects, release Edward's mahiti, sympathetically be guided by the Hippocratic Oath and mirror the family's anxious need to have the Mrehemu (the one mercifully granted rest) taken for burial before Christmas so that the family can confidently move into the grieving process, to get over their loss, move on and rebuild their lives in the memory of their beloved who must also move on.


Mrs Edward and her family receives the guests who come to condole in a small space behind the field at the school with grace and dignity, ensuring that she cushions all of us from the gravity of the moment with quiet strength and composure that is just amazing.


Tomorrow (ie today at 5pm) there will be a fund-raising drive that will hopefully be attended by the management, teachers and parents of the school, and friends, the people whom he taught to swim and feel at ease in the water.  The school is closed so I am hoping that the teachers and the students will address the questions we are facing supportively, when the school starts.   Will we collect the 1.1 million?  What do you think?


Here is an incomplete report on what may have happened to this great swimming coach, as received by oral testimony from his widow and others:


Edward was taken to the hospital (Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi) and moved directly to the ICU.  He may have, from a report I received today, possibly been assessed as clinically dead on arrival; for, that may have happened at the moment he had suffered a severe brain haemorrhage on December 12th.  Is this true and could the hospital confirm and help to fill in the blanks?


The object, I am told, was to raise his heart beat from 52 to about 75 before they could proceed with draining the brain.  It had started going up slowly, though not at the same rate as the charges were mounting and not high enough to safely perform a procedure.  He was already on a life support.  The school's insurance company had paid their obligation (KES.200,000/-, about USD.2,500.-).  There were now the questions of holding him on life-support and the monetary cost of offering further treatment.


When I called Mama Raveena (Mrs Edward)  on the 17th to find out how he was she told me that he had died the day before.


Naturally I was stunned.  But he was only 40 years of age.  I had started to make friends with him and I was looking forward to having Saida learn competitive swimming under his auspices and care.  He had taught Saida, her mother, sister Nelly to swim within the span of three or four lessons.  He knew exactly where to challenge them and where to limit them.  On sunny  or chilly days it was a pleasure to swim in that pool at Aga Khan Primary School. He was diligent and everyone in the pool was laughing and larking about, bumping into one another.  The atmosphere was much jollier than any pool in the vicinity and his approach was casual, friendly and confident.


But Edward was suffering. I wish I had known.  I wish he had known (didn't he know?) that he had very high blood pressure.  My mum:  "High blood pressure is a devilish trickster.  We should all check our pressure regularly."  Men are dying younger and younger from cardio-vascular related diseases because of extreme stress (being pushed into fighting against poverty and indigence by the ultra-rich who control our worlds).  I have personally experienced this sort of stress where one is constantly on the edge of being relieved of one's rightful possessions, spaces and memories by a process that is making us poor while the economy grows.  I am on medication, myself.

Edward was complaining of backaches.  I had invited him to my studio to learn a few yoga moves and he came two Sundays in a row. He said that he had found relief through yoga.  So when I heard that he had fallen ill I was in a spin.


But now he's gone.  The family stays at the Aga Khan Primary School workers' quarters.   Mama Raveena (who is my daughter's friend) will have to move out at some point though I expect the school will give her time to get herself organised, first.  Where will she go and how will she manage the four children?  She doesn't work.


Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

I have to try to find a way to get access to the Aga Khan University Hospital administration for advice on several questions:

• Can they assign a qualified person to us, someone with humanity, to explain to us what actually happened and why they are demanding such a sum?
• Can we know who the doctor was?
• What is in the medical report?  What was the prognosis and the line of action that they proposed to take and why?
• Was the family informed of the patient's state of health and of the implications of continuing the treatment the way it was projected?
• What were his chances of survival?
• Cause of death?
• Why did he have high blood pressure?
• Was he never checked and warned about the risks of his high blood pressure?
• What could have prevented him from obtaining the correct information about his health if he was already on some sort of insurance?
• Was he on life support?  From what moment?
• Was he taken off the life support machine?
• Why do they hold the body?  Is it as a 'collateral' against the amount being owed when the person who owes them the money is dead?  
• Is this morally correct and what does the constitution have to say about it?
• Can we come to an arrangement about the release of the body so that he can be taken home before Christmas?
• Should the family not be supported by the hospital and the Aga Khan institutions and advice about how to go about preventing this blockage of a natural course of events that follow a death?
• What other advice can they give us?

What are the ethical guidelines that govern cases like this?

APPEAL

I am hoping that people who come across this article will contribute to the fund of having the body released, taken home to Western Province and buried as soon as possible.  Can you contribute something - anything?  If so, then the details of Mama Raveena's account are below.  If you are going to make Western Union or similar payment please note her name and ID number, or if it will be a bank transfer here are the details of the bank account, too:

MPESA TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 0700103662 in the name of Conceptar (Mrs Edward)

Bank and International Wire Transfer Details
Account Name:	Conceptar Nabwire Oucho
Account Number:	1108532003600
Bank:	Coop Bank, P  O  Box 38764-00600, Nairobi, Kenya
Branch:	Sitima Plaza Branch, Nairobi Kenya
Bank code:	11000
Branch code:	11035
Swift code:	KCOOKENA

Western Union and similar: Conceptar Nabwire Oucho Kenya ID number: 25650053


Keep the payments coming as Mrs Edward will have to pay the bills, move, set up home once again, possibly in the village, and yet ensure that the children keep going to good (boarding) schools.  Note that if she buys cows and produces milk for sale then she will probably have a gross income of about KES.7500 p month (all less expenses that can climb fast).  Each cow can support one person at the lowest level of life only.  She needs an income from about six cows to make it, and each cow will cost about 50,000.- (USD.600).


I guess (correct me where I am wrong) she will need to collect altogether:

Schedule of Estimated Cost of Rebuilding a Small Family in the Countryside
		KES	Exch Rate	USD
Bills		1,200,000	83	14,457.83
Burial		50,000	83	602.41
House move		100,000	83	1,204.82
Cows		300,000	83	3,614.46
Rebuilding		100,000	83	1,204.82
Fees six mths 4 kids*	25,000	100,000	83	1,204.82
		1,850,000	83	22,289.16

*@25,000 each


Is it possible to collect the funds by sending out information/ publicity via Twitter and the blog?  I don't know. I will report our progress back.  Please use the COMMENTS facility on this blog to advise, comment and send condolences, if you like, and spread this around.


I shall update this blog post regularly.  I am working on the questions of intention to repay the hospital (within the context/ need to question the bill and the reasons why a particular course of action was taken), transparency and accountability.


If you contribute something to any of the above payment points please send a note to me (as a self-appointed accountant) so that we can keep a track of the amounts that we have collected and report them back to you together with the budget as it becomes more accurate.  Meanwhile, I have requested the family (led by Michael Wambwere, Edward's cousin) to advise me on how to maintain transparency and accountability because it is not easy to do this through the bank account and the Mpesa account  until we have the approvals necessary.


Most importantly, if there is anyone who can advise us on how to negotiate with the hospital (if the hospital itself cannot take the role of counselor because it is an institution of healing and wholeness, ideally speaking) please contact me through my Twitter account @kirimba:  Healing and wholeness would naturally and obviously include the wholeness of the patient, the family, the community and the public, in a manner that mirrors the anxiety of the people affected at this time.

Photo of Edward   Photo of Edward's family

Edward Shikuku Wanzala (1973-2013), Swimming Instructor with the Aga Khan Primary School, Nairobi.  Survived by Conceptar and four children (Meshack, Fernando, Raveena and Praise) relatives, friends, and hundreds of students who loved and felt secure with him in the water.

G Mohamed Jiwa
@kirimba
19th/ 20th December 2013

(to be continued)
Drafted 10:46 AM 12/19/2013
Third edit 2:32 PM 12/20/2013
Fourth Edit 8:12pm 20th Dec 2013
Edit 9:50am 22nd December, 2013
Update 1 at 7:20pm 20th December 2013

Times of India article on Gujeratis bringing glory to East Africa and comments

Edited on 18th Nov 2013 10:42h

Caution:
I made up a new word, I think:  "residuality".  It denotes the quality and composition of the (human) residue of those left over after society has lived and produced.  (G  M  Jiwa November 17th, 2013);
I produced a new definition of 'rich':  conferred with generosity and humanity for your fellows in a manner committed to their uplift in socio-economic terms;

 

Times of India has regional sections.  In the 'City/Vadodara' section there is an article entitled,

Gujeratis brought glory to E Africa.

Turn to the Times and read it.

The only comment I found therein added to the article's information base with a great punch.  But it was thought-provoking, too.  I attempted to add my comment and tweet the thing but the mechanism failed.


Here is the comment by one Farouk Jamal who shares his ancestral lineage and antecedents with the reader, too, which is fascinating.


Farouk's comment:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/opinions/23106715.cms?ordertype=asc

Farouk S. Jamal (Vancouver, Canada) 1 day ago

The earliest Indian settlers in East Africa were Khojas, Dawoodi Bohoras and Bhatias from Kathiawar and Kutchh, in today's Gujarat State. They built financial Empires in the19th Century. In mid 19th Century, Sir Tharia Topan, a Khoja (the first Indian knighted by the British Crown in Africa) was the right hand man to the Sultan of Zanzibar, before the British Imperial East Africa Company had achieved a stronghold in that part of the world. I myself am the great grand son of Jamal Suleiman Virji, son of the Indian pioneer of 1872, Suleiman Virji, who hailed from the Junagadh region of Saurashtra, Gujarat, the son of one Shivjibhai Haji. Suleiman Virji with Alidina Visram, the latter known as the Uncrowned King of Uganda, along with A M Jivanjee that you mention in your article, were the wealthiest people in East Africa at the time, in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Today's Lord Verjee, my blood relation, in the British upper house of Parliament, is also a descendant of Suleiman Verji. Whilst we made (and often lost) fortunes in the those lands in trade and commerce, the Africans have very little idea and knowledge of the difficulties endured and sacrifices made by our forefathers in developing today's Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, putting East Africa on the map. The British sahebs ("Bwana" in Swahili) meanwhile had occupied the position of rulers and Administrators of those lands under whom we suffered discrimination and the apartheid system, particularly in Colonial Kenya. Farouk Jamal Vancouver, Canada

Here is how I respond to the above comment (remembering that both Farouk and I are Ismaili Khojas while he is a Canadian and I a Kenyan - with no dual citizenship):

"Accurate and something to feel proud about, indeed. 

Perhaps they brought glory, yes, but not to E Africa which (having been robbed of its unadulterated natural evolution) is, was and promises to remain for some time: poor (if you would be willing to define rich in terms of being conferred with generosity and humanity for your fellows in a manner committed to their uplift in socio-economic terms. 

Glory was to the empire and still is, for even Lords are bound to be imperialists. 

There were no strong loyalties, as such, to Africa from the late 19th century up till today with exceptions where a few thinking people and groups idealise the notion of Kenya, or Uganda, for example.  But these are countries that are scarred by their artificial geographical national boundaries.   In most cases, life and culture developed on the templates of survival in an exciting and wild environment where there was room for obtaining success mostly because one was protected under the British imperial umbrella.   

The loyalty, on the part of everyone, including the black Africans who claim lordship over the land against a historical backdrop and in an environment which have reduced agents of self-centred growth including Gujus, to corrupt people who are ruthlessly exploiting the situation, today, amounting to loyalty to their own glory and not E Africa's, to their own protection, raj and self-aggrandisement, in face of Western neo-colonialist, imperialist incursions through agencies like Africa Command.   

90% of human beings in Africa are poor and vulnerable and I doubt whether even 99% of the people who have connections to this piece of real estate care enough to search for lasting solutions.   

We as Indians, like all other colonised and once oppressed races, languish in the memory of lost glories and our nostalgia for unrequited imperial ambitions, making up for them with life-styles that compensate for such losses.  We celebrate our gujerati or Englishness by creating and adding to what we perceive as the most important values in life, wealth, power and affluence to dress our dignity.  Therefore, whilst we stumble through the age on chauvinistic crutches and the need for glory (a colonial hangover) the world turns and leaves the marks of our neglect on peoples who have no clue how to rise from the swamp of residuality."

Mohamed Jiwa
@kirimba
habaripoa
18th November, 2013

My comment to an article on Baroness Warsi's poke at Fox News

Comment in reply to Aidan Taylor7's invitation to explain what I meant by Americans being impoverished because of the Zionist lobby

In response to an article on Baroness Warsi's poke in the eye of Fox News

Edited 1:47 AM 11/17/2013

I have reviewed this comment and tried to reduce the errors just now.  Aidan Taylor7 graciously commented on one of my comments about the Zion connection in the way Americans are kept in the dark about the realities on the planet.  S/he said that she had all night to hear what I had to say about it.  I tried to post a comment at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/15/baroness-warsi-fox-news-religion_n_4282322.html?utm_hp_ref=tw but they did not publish it for must be nearly a day(?).  So I decided to put it here in the hope that s/he finds it.



:-D, Hi Aidan, what a delightful offer!  You may be Jewish but are you pro-Zionist?  There are a lot of Jewish people who are anti and are grieving about the direction of Israel (and you may not be an Israeli).  www.habaripoacoolnews.blogspot.com is where I wish to develop this among other thoughts for my audience, which is mostly African, at an aching pace but it is all over the place if you look a bit. For example, read about Max Blumenthal by Gilad Atzmon here http://t.co/VCxsWhsDCT . http://t.co/7x7efFJQbf is one of the best quick reads that covers all the issues succinctly and clears a lot of confusion.


In a few words, the Americans are generally ignorant (a little less so than when I went to university there decades ago) and are normally driven by what they see and read in the media which is controlled by questionable interests (in my opinion, the subtly Israel/Zionist protective ones).  The effect of this is, for example, how the Palestinians are being mistreated by the Israelis who have a powerful lobby controlling all sorts of things in the USA, including the direction of the military-industrial-media complex (eg Africom).


Taking into account possible false flags (eg see this thesis on Westgate http://buff.ly/18Ew7qF), there is a lot that has happened that cannot directly be logically ascribed to Muslims (see here http://buff.ly/1gQBco9 for a fiery discussion on the definition of Muslim).   True enough, these days it is practically impossible to verify what is really going on without the support of committed agencies who are empowered to get to the bottom of it.  In the Westgate example EVERYTHING has been covered up.  Just today, someone suggested to me that it appears that the figures are far higher than 70 people killed.  The numbers could be as high as 400, she says, according to reports from families.  But there's no facebook page to help truly account for it.  There should be one. 


The reality of the current conditions in the world as they are, right now, largely influenced by powerful lobbies - the Zionist one being probably the most powerful one - is being explored in conversations like this one: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/15/pussy-riot-nadezhda-tolokonnikova-slavoj-zizek .  There should be more collaborations on Facebook and similar to enable people to report on the true figures of casualties. Hope this serves to open the door a crack?



For Ismaili readers turn to Peace and Tranquillity in Mombasa here and spend time at Tudor Jamat Khana not far from Aga Khan Bamburi Cottages for a marvellous tranquil holiday!

Reading links for people in search of the truth Hooray for The Guardian - Not perfect but a cut above!

Questions, questions, questions!

Reading links for people in search of the truth
Hooray for The Guardian - Not perfect but a cut above!

All articles of substance should raise more questions about ourselves, our own situation, and prompt us to make comparisons.



“Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”- Max Blumenthal Essential reading Chris Hedges' review my favourite.  Try to see how this affects us in this part of the world.  Find out about Jewish people who are grieving for the loss of the things they dreamed of in their world because of the slaughter and apartheid in their country, Israel.  If people are asking where Israel exists then we should also ask whether Kenya really exists or is it just a figment of a collective imagination and/ or dream... and can it be fulfilled?  Why and why not?

http://buff.ly/1gQyCP1
Don't let the media brainwash you.  Think for yourself.



Dan Gilmore
The Guardian
What is the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) and how does it affect us in Kenya and Africa?  Please send your opinions to me.  Clue:  Think about a marriage between the big corporates and the government, where the government plays the feminine and submissive role.

http://t.co/ASQNjD5SO4




Who influences your thinking?  How do you know that the approach you are taking towards the solutions being touted for you by those whom you respect in authority is a suitable one for you and the future?  Do they really know what they are doing?

Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek
meet in an extraordinary exchange of letters

The Guardian

Why is Pussy Riot a very important group?  What actually happened to them?  One of them was sent to prison for singing that the blind are leading are blind.  She got hospitalised because she went on a hunger strike.  She has a child out there whom she is separated from, and is dealing with the challenges of holding to her sanity (because she is being punished simply for following the logic of she is led to by her intellect).  Here she is conversing by letter from the prison with a philosopher.  What are they talking about?  The disaffection of a population forced to live in accordance with a system that doesn't work beyond mediocrity, forced not to think beyond what they are allowed to think?  Does this compare with the way we are in our part of the world? 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/15/pussy-riot-nadezhda-tolokonnikova-slavoj-zizek




The Independent
An article on Mahinda Rajapaksa, accused of War Crimes. Is this the level of hate we want to take it to in Africa?

Frances Harrison (Expert on the destruction of the Tamils in Sri Lanka)
Did you know that 40,000 people have been killed or have gone missing in Sri Lanka?  Are aware of the kinds of tortures members of the Tamil Tigers suffered after they lost the war there?  It's gory reading.  There's one story of a man (look up Frances Harrison on Google and find some videos there - there was a recent BBC docu about what has happened to these men) where an object of (sc)raping him was made from a pipe and barbed wire.  What is it about men that they allow themselves to be reduced to a level below animals and resort to torture?  Why is there no proof?  Why is it so silent when questions are asked.  David Cameron was there recently at the Commonwealth Conference and he became quite a hero.  But what sacrifices would he be willing to make in order to find some answers?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/hero-or-war-criminal-sri-lankan-leader-mahinda-rajapaksa-under-pressure-8940591.html?origin=internalSearch

Matrimonial Bill: Women's rights in marriage and divorce in Kenya and the rest of the world

November 16th, 2013

Matrimonial Bill

Matrimonial Bill: Just who makes greatest contribution in marriage?

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/?articleID...story...marriage

10 hours ago -

By LILLIAN ALUANGA-DELVAUX ... Five years into the marriage, Jacob landed a job in an European capital that came with a monthly salary of Sh1 million. ... “It is not only in divorce that issues of how to share matrimonial property come up. ... care', which is a contributor to the country's economic growth.

My opinion

It's not too difficult to calculate the woman's contribution in terms of time and dedication without cutting her off from her right to stay where she lived.  What's the big deal?  You can't kick the woman out.  Man has to leave and ensure she has a home and amenities and the ability to improve her lot.  All women, including prostitutes and Sugar Daddy predators, have rights over their men and men in general.  In being provided those rights women's trust in men will improve.  That is one step in the right direction towards a more enlightened society.  Women go bad only after men have gone rotten.

Okay, now women - you take the lead:  Where are the exceptions to such a rule?

Here are some links from Google:

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Women Land and Property Rights in Kenya - FIDA Kenya

fidakenya.org/wp-content/.../Land-and-Property-Report-May-8-09.pdf‎

Women Lawyers – Kenya and the International Women's Human Rights .... Existing Marriage and Divorce Laws Rob Women of Their Matrimonial Property .

[PDF]

Women Property Rights - FIDA Kenya

fidakenya.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/.../Women-property-rights.pdf‎

A. Gaps in Divorce Laws and Wide Judicial Discretion Leave Women with Nothing at Divorce, Violating their Rights to Equality, Housing, and an Adequate ...

Divorce in Kenya: What the law says | The Star

www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-23756/divorce-kenya-what-law-says‎

Apr 4, 2012 - People have woken up to their family rights and unlike in the olden days, ... Kenyan law prohibits the presentation of a divorce petition to a court of law ... WITH Kituo Cha Sheria, The federation of women lawyers Kenya (FIDA).

[PDF]

Law and the Status of Women in Kenya - International ...

www.ielrc.org/content/a9501.pdf‎

by J Kabeberi-Macharia - ‎Cited by 3 - ‎Related articles

Civil Law. 4. Legal Capacity. 4. Rights Relating to Marriage. 5. Rights of Inheritance. 8 ... In this chapter, we look at the legal status of women in Kenya. II.

Kenyan women to fight bill denying them property rights in divorce

www.trust.org/item/20131113164113-e6i3l/‎

3 days ago - the small number of Kenyan female MPs is handicapping efforts to push through legislation promoting women's rights, in a country where men ...

Marriage Bill, 2013 - Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLRC)

www.klrc.go.ke › Bills‎

Kenya Law Reforms Commission KLRC Bills Laws. ... Defines marriage as the voluntary union of a man and a woman whether monogamous or ... Parties to a marriage have equal rights at the time of the marriage, during the marriage and at ...

Legal/Statutory Marriage in Kenya - Infotrack East Africa Ltd.

www.infotrackea.co.ke/.../index.php?...legal-marriage...kenya...‎

The general position of the Law in Kenya is that Kenya is governed by various ... Divorce, Annulments, Judicial Separations, Restitution of Conjugal rights, ... man keeps one or more other women as his wives without declaring marriage.

Marriage in Kenya | Kenya Law - Kenya by Kenyans

softkenya.com/law/marriage-in-kenya/‎

Marriage in Kenya: Bring original and copies of the Identity Cards or ... After 21 days, the couple completes the affidavit under S 11 of the Marriage Act, gets it commissioned by the Registrar and completes ... This is not a right and can be denied. ... Female Celebrities in Kenya · Top Ten Male and Female Musicians in Kenya ...

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Gender Considerations in Constitution-Making- Engendering ...

ir.library.strathmore.edu/researcherFileDownload.action?researcherFileId...‎

WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND THE LAW IN KENYA ..... Other than this, the Marriage Bill (1985) gives equal rights to spouses in a marriage in matters concerning ...