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    "id": 388322,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/388322/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I would like for the sake of clarity for some of us who may not be lawyers, and without debating the matter that the Leader of the Majority Party would want to table before the House--- It is important that you help some of us and, indeed, Kenyans understand what we are doing here today. If you look at Chapter One of the Constitution, it discusses the sovereignty of the people of Kenya and the Constitution of this country. Without discussing the sovereignty of the people of Kenya, which is clear in the Constitution, Article 2(5) discusses the general rules of international law which shall form part of the law of Kenya. Under Article 2(6) the Constitution states that Kenya shall adopt all the treaties and conventions which have been ratified, and which shall form part of this Constitution. The matter we are discussing is about the ICC, whose statute we have ratified and domesticated. The question I am asking is this: Are we discussing this matter without necessarily looking at its constitutionality, or are we discussing it because it is irrelevant for us to link it to the fact that all the international treaties that the Kenya Government has signed before are part and parcel of the new Constitution? Hon. Speaker, Sir, finally, I would want you to give advice as to whether this House has a right to debate this matter and vote on it or whether, indeed, this matter is one that we can tackle as friends, as many of us in this House would wish."
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