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    "id": 1237338,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1237338/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "The conventions mean that a certain body can sue you for child maintenance in the USA and it is enforced here. It means that you will take responsibility for something which has been done even where you are not represented because you ratified it. Sometime back, we ratified the Rome Statute on establishment of the International Criminal Court, that is, a Treaty on crimes against humanity. By Kenya being a signatory, people had to be taken to Hague for trial on crimes that could not be proved. The House should not pass this ratification; we should oppose it. The rest of the country is ignorant about what we are ratifying. We are making the rest of the 50 million Kenyans to be enjoined to these three treaties on children without their participation. We should take our time. There are some of those ratifications that we are doing that are not in conformity with our own laws. We cannot ratify what is not in conformity with our law. By supporting it, we will be letting down Kenyans. I want this House to rise to the occasion by not ratifying something that Members have not read and understood. Let us have an opportunity to subject it to public participation. Let us have an opportunity for Kenyans to look at it so that we do not regret ratifying it. With those few remarks, I oppose."
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