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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to inform the House that there is no stalemate in the Cabinet on the issue of post-election violence. I want the House to understand that this matter is not new. The House knows that, first, we formed the Waki Commission to investigate the causes of the post-election violence. That Commission produced a report which was presented to the Government. That report was discussed in the Cabinet and it was approved. After that, the report was brought to Parliament, it was debated in the House and it was approved. Thereafter, a Bill to set up a special tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of post-election violence was prepared. Once again, it was taken to the Cabinet, it was approved and it was brought to the House. It was discussed and a vote was taken and it was defeated. Because of that, we were not in a position to constitute the tribunal. In accordance with the recommendation of the Waki Report, after the House had rejected that Bill, that should have been the end of the matter. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Hon. Kofi Annan should have then handed over the envelope to the International Criminal Court (ICC), but he exercised discretion. He said he was not going to hand over the envelope to the ICC so as to give the Government a second chance to have the Bill passed in the House. He gave us up to August, which is next month. So, the matter is back to the Cabinet, which discussed a draft Bill. To come back to the House with the same Bill when it is the way it was when it was rejected, would be an exercise in futility. The debate out there is that Parliament is not interested. Many hon. Members are saying that we have only three options: Number one, The Hague; number two, The Hague, and number three, The Hague. We felt that it would be a waste of Parliament’s time to come back to the House with the same Bill that was rejected."
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