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"speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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"content": "When the Bill was brought to the House, the hon. Member did not point out the flaws. That Bill was based on the Rome Statute. It was a complete carbon copy of the Rome Statute. So, there was nothing much that the Cabinet would do. All that we said was that we were going to try to bring it back here. But the general feeling countrywide was that it was just going to be an exercise in futility. That is the reason the Cabinet, in its wisdom, decided not to waste Kenyansâ time. We have been told that majority of Kenyans want the Hague option. Some hon. Members are on record saying: âOption one; Hague! Option two; Hague! Option three, Hague!â So we said: âLet us not be vague; let us say Hague!â, and that is what we said. If the hon. Member understood me correctly, we never said that the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was going to try the perpetrator of post-election violence. We said it will undertake accelerated and far-reaching reforms in the Judiciary, police and investigative arms of Government to enable them investigate, prosecute and try perpetrators of post-election violence locally. That has nothing to do with the TJRC. The TJRC is completely a different institution all together. The hon. Member said that Kenyans have no faith in the Judiciary, as currently constituted. So we said we are going to accelerate the process of reforming the Judiciary as well as the State Law Office and the police force so that they can be able to undertake the process of prosecuting the perpetrators locally. This is the only option that the Cabinet had but we have not closed the door to The Hague. We cannot restrain the International Criminal Court (ICC), if it wants to indict the perpetrators if they think that the process we are instituting falls short of the international standards, from proceeding and indicting those who were involved. We have not closed the door to the ICC."
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