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    "id": 194979,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Bill. First of all I want to take this opportunity to thank the Attorney-General for bringing this Bill, which is going to domesticate the statute. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it is important to state from the outset that all May 7, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 921 this Bill is doing is giving legal effect to the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute is of limited nature. It is basically concerned with three types of crimes. One is crime against humanity. The second is a war crime and the third one is genocide. We know that the Attorney-General is in the mood of bringing our legal standards to another scale. I think it would not be too much to ask him to look into all the international treaties that Kenya has assented to. He should bring them here, so that we can also domesticate them. There are quite a number of international treaties and agreements that Kenya has signed, but they have not been domesticated. There are others which Kenya has not signed, with or without conditions. My appeal is that he should also look at our register and find the ones which we have not assented to. I think we should assent to them. Those we have not domesticated should be domesticated. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my quarrel with the Rome Statute has been that it does not take preventive action against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. It waits for genocide to happen before it invokes its the jurisdiction. It waits for crimes against humanity to happen before it revokes its jurisdiction. It waits for war crimes to happen before it invokes its jurisdiction. That has been my main concern, even when I was at the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. I am saying this because it is important to me that we take all necessary steps to prevent genocide. We should take all the necessary steps to prevent crimes against humanity from happening. We must take all the necessary steps to prevent war crimes from happening. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the current situation in Kenya, we have so many militia groups. We have so many warlords in this country. We have the likes of the"
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