The Member of Parliament for Homabay George Peter Opondo Kaluma has opened up on the motivation behind the Law of Succession 'Mpango wa Kando' bill.
Kaluma stated that he was drawn to seeing orderliness in property succession and not that he has ever been a victim.
He presented the amendment to the Law of Succession on November 12, 2019, before Parliament.
"I have had no horrible experience at the hands of slay queens. The motivation of the new law was to bring sanity in property succession contests.
"If you were a secret, remain there as a secret. My wife should not be mourning, and another one I was meeting at a retreat is busy in some court. Inheritance will now be limited to legally married husbands and wives and their legal children," Kaluma clarified.
President Uhuru Kenyatta assented to the bill on Wednesday, November 17, at State House after it had passed the floors of the National Assembly.
In the National Assembly, Parliamentarians had argued that once one died, the deceased family was free from supporting individuals who were being helped.
This now means secret wives, stepchildren, half brothers, and sisters as well as distant dependants will no longer have a right to inheritance in the event of a benefactor’s death.
The new law limits the dependants entitled to inherit property to only the spouse and children of the deceased.
