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    "id": 370123,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank hon. wa Kabando for saying what is in the public domain. When the Kenya Parliament passed a resolution that the Government should withdraw from the Rome Statute, if the Government agreed with Parliament, it should have gone ahead and applied for the withdrawal from the Rome Statute. There are procedures to follow when you want to withdraw. You cannot withdraw from the Rome Statute en mass as Africa. You can only withdraw as Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe or Tanzania. Therefore, the position of the Kenya Government in so far as the ICC issue is concerned is quite ambivalent. It is not clear to say the least. On one hand, you hear that we are committed to the ICC process or the Rome Statute because we are signatories and, on the other hand, you hear people going through the backdoor and castigating the ICC. Through the backdoor, they call for the Kenyan cases at the ICC to be terminated or be referred back to the country. So, what is the true position? Does the Government want the cases to come back to Kenya or does it want the AU to lead it in that campaign? Hon. Speaker, Sir, if you watched the debate that ensued in Addis Ababa, you should appreciate that most of the countries that spearheaded the call for the Kenyan cases to be referred back to this country had vested interests in the matter. Therefore, as a country, we must be very careful. So, I call upon the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to go back and interrogate this matter a little bit further and come back to the House with a more coherent position of the Government of Kenya pertaining to the ICC matter."
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