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    "id": 168702,
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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shabesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want, from the outset, to support this Bill. Why I am supporting this Motion is very simple for me. If this Government was sincere about this, this House would be full. We know the capability of this Government, being a Government of National Unity, or a Coalition, or whatever we want to call it. I am supporting it because women, I will speak about women only, are only protected by the Constitution in this country. Men politicians have never protected women. I am telling this House that the ground has shifted. I have no idea whom we think we are speaking to. But if we think Kenyans are listening to us, and to any sensible thing that we are saying, especially women, we need to know the ground has shifted. For me the Constitution is the law that protects us. For this Special Tribunal to be entrenched in the Constitution, that tells me that we are protecting it from interference, the very interference we are speaking about here. It makes sense that it must be entrenched in the Constitution. We keep on speaking about the Hague. I am privileged to sit in the Pan African Parliament (PAP) and on its Committee on International Relations. When this issue of the Waki Report came up, we were in a Session of the PAP. We invited the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to our Committee to speak on the issue of Sudan, and I took time to sit down with him and asked his opinion on Kenya. His advice was very simple: Do not even for one minute, if you have any other route, want to go the route of the Hague. Why? Because we speak about the Hague as if we are speaking about Milimani Law Courts. We speak about the Hague as if we understand what its Statute's implications would be to the sovereignty of this country; we speak about it as if we know the way other countries would look at us, as a nation, and even as if we know what it would mean for the stability of this Government. What is more important for me is for the country to remain peaceful. I see no reason why, if people were genuine, you would tell me that going to the Hague can bring peace to this country, unless you want us to continue dying. I see no way in which you can be sincere about the Hague, if we want sincerity in this country."
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