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    "content": "has incorporated sections that need to take it to a new level and bring the hybrid process, so that trials and prosecutions are undertaken not just locally, but if need be, through the Rome Statute, at the international level. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the motive is as important as the results. The process is as important as those executing it. A word of caution is that I do not think there has been good lobbying and networking for this Bill from the very beginning. There were Press conferences outside the House and statements in rallies, in villages, that sort of threatened Members of Parliament, that if they do not support this Bill they will be betraying Kenya. As a political scientist, I would like to dissect the science in this Bill. This House must rise to its expectation. We have seen important issues causing shifts that many times confuse our very people that we want to help. We have all seen certain Motions demarcated in the way they are voted for, because of ethnic and sometimes party lines. We have seen in this House individuals shouting loudest about the need to end impunity and deal with corruption, but the same individuals not taking a firm position when individuals from their ethnic groups are concerned. It is an issue that should lead us to serious soul searching. This is because it is not only about your individual conscience, but also the political chemistry and anatomy of the legislative agenda that we want to execute. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I say this with a heavy heart because the Mover of this Motion stands shoulders high among the heroes of reforms, inspired by TheNairobi Law Monthly, which was actually the very exemplification of the platform where reformist gathered intellectually and ideologically to feed the nation to move forward. Also, without risking discussing the character of a colleague, I appreciate the Mover’s courage. While many other people went into hiding when there was a crackdown on reformists in 1990, I have evidence that the Mover of this Motion was the only one who did not go into hiding. He drove from his house to a police station in this country and delivered himself to the police to be jailed for calling for multiparty politics. It is only Mr. Gitobu Imanyara who did so. But faults are also found in individuals. Perhaps, for all of us from the Government side and the Back Benches, when we are moving Motions we need to have tact. We need to expand goodwill and strategically harvest from the diversity of individuals that constitute this House. Therefore, I submit boldly that the strategy to bring this Bill to this House was not good. I can predict, and I am not likely to go to the detail that the goodwill may have adversarial effect on the outcome of this Bill. It is an important Bill. It is a milestone! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have said that we have to be consistent. We have come to this House; we have supported the Special Tribunal, as a first step towards trying the masterminds, the perpetrators, the sponsors and the promoters of violence after the 2007 elections. This is not about 2007 or 2008! The culture has been developed in this country! There was violence during 1992 election in Likoni and in the Rift Valley Province. It is like it is a ritual that after every election, those particular areas in this country cannot be touched! Sometimes I hear individuals speaking, including the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of this nation, talking about violence and yet during his reign, Kenyans had been killed day and night, while he was the Commander- in-Chief of the Armed Forces and, the CEO of this country. He did nothing. I think we need to have courage; and also questioned all those, who have been in reign in this country, to sometimes shut up, if they failed when they had the responsibility to lead this"
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