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    "id": 370598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to confirm that the Chief Justice went to Senegal in his private capacity. Secondly, that visit has no impact on the ongoing ICC cases. The cases are before the court in the Netherlands. The lawyers there are able. The Chief Justice’s visit has no relevance and no impact. It does not contravene Article 161 of the Constitution. On protocol, the Judiciary is an independent institution. The Chief Justice is not under anybody’s command. He does not get clearance from anybody when he wants to go and attend any function outside this country. On the issue of funding raised by hon. Sakaja, any institution even Parliament may seek funding, but again that funding will come through the national Treasury. There are procedures in Government. Even our county governments can go and seek funding, but the funding must come through the national Treasury and the office of the Solicitor- General. If the Chief Justice in his informal discussion wanted to get more funding, I hope not for the expansion of gay rights, but for other judicial functions, then that is good for our country. On gay rights, Kenyans spoke in 2010 when they passed the Constitution. Kenya is a God fearing nation. We have a culture and religion. We abhor gayism as a country. One of the issues that the American Government was sending across Africa was gay rights. If that, indeed, was the case then I am lucky at least that he did not come to Kenya. This is because Kenyans have shown categorically that they do not believe in those kinds of acts. It is in the Bible and the Quran that communities that went through that kind of behavior were destroyed by God. We stand with our bishops. With regard to hon. Linturi, I said that the Chief Justice went on a private mission and that does not contravene the oath of office as stipulated in the Third Schedule of our Constitution."
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