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    "content": "happened to him alongside many others who continue to ask for compensation. He has been going through a lot of frustration from the State Law Office. I do not think we are saying that Kshs21 million or Kshs30 million is enough compensation for somebody who had a prolific career that was terminated because of his service to the nation. Service to the nation includes questioning issues like denying Kenyans of good governance. For instance, can we compensate hon. Kenneth Matiba sufficiently, considering his status as an indigenous entrepreneur and all that he went through? Therefore, I support the Motion with the emphasis that something needs to be done quickly to settle the dues of Mak’Onyango and his likes. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the second point I want to make very quickly is on Kenya’s commitment to the ICC cases. The commitment remains but this comes at a time when we are being told that a son of a Kenyan pioneer bureaucrat, who heads a certain country in the West, cannot visit our nation because of the Kenyan cases going on at the ICC. I know that we are not supposed to discuss any of those Heads of State because of the ICC even though those particular nations are not signatories to the Rome State that created the ICC. We know that in July, 2008, the Secretary of State of the Republic of the United States of America (USA), Madam Rice, apologised to Nelson Mandela, the icon of the anti-apartheid crusade because for 18 years and five months, Mandela’s name remained on the list of terrorists of the Government of the USA. It was only in July, 2008, when Mandela was to visit the USA that the Bush administration realised that Mandela and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Africa were still listed as terrorists. They called it a “small” matter, which was very embarrassing. The commitment remains, and should remain but in this era of the Jubilee Government, and particularly this week when we are laying to rest the man who shot down the colonial war planes during the Mau Mau war, Mzee Ndung’u Gicheru, in Kieni, Nyeri – the lot of the Mau Mau fighters who were the lieutenants of Dedan Kimathi – everyone needs to understand that our commitments are even more to a sovereign will. Our commitments are more to the jurisdiction of the Kenyan people, through the democratically elected Government and their representatives, and the renewed and fortified institutions of governance, including the Judiciary. Therefore, our commitment to the ICC, truly, remains because we are signatory to the ICC Statute, and because we must do what is right. However, the spirit must also go that we should not be lorded over by any other individual or any other country 50 years after Independence, because we know that we deserve to show that we are not only intellectually conscious but we are also politically very conscious to do that which is important and entitled to the Republic of Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with your permission, I salute with the greatest honour, Mzee Ndung’u Gicheru, the man who remains shining despite fare thee well. His call of duty has not been terminated. The spirit lives on. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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