Secret lovers, popularly known to Kenyans as Mpango Wa Kando, have been dealt a huge blow as President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the Law of Succession (Amendment) Bill into law. In the Bill, secret lovers were barred from claiming property of their spouses after they were termed illegitimate. Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma introduced the Amendment Bill in November 2019 seeking to lock out the secret lovers as part of the spouse's dependents.

The amendment, however, acknowledged children sired by the deceased spouse as legitimate and could stake a claim in the deceased's property. With the new law, the list of dependents has been reduced to include the deceased's parents, step-parents, grandparents, grandchildren, and step-children. Others are brothers, sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters and children he took under his own wings.

A person not named in this section, shall not be dependant for the purposes of this Act unless the person proves s/he was maintained by the deceased for a period of two years, prior to the deceased's death. In March 2021, Kaluma had argued that he introduced the bill to prevent anguish caused by the secret lovers on widows. He termed them as attention seekers and opportunists who sprout from the shadows to enjoy the property. Several MPs who supported the bill at the time added that families were being broken and left to wallow in poverty due to the worrying trend, where secret lovers takeover.