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    "id": 388325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/388325/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, in my contribution I will tell the country and this House why this Motion is urgent, why it was important to recall the House and why hon. Members should leave their constituencies and other matters that they have been dealing with to come and discuss this Motion. If you allow me, on 17th July, 1998 diplomats from across the world assembled in Rome and this was the genesis of the Rome Statute. Kenya was very ably represented by the Senator of Busia who was the leader of the delegation. Kenya signed the Rome Statute and ratified it in 2005. In the minutes of that meeting of the Kenyan delegation, a man I want to mention today, the former Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Thuita Mwangi, many years before in that meeting raised the red flag. He said: “I am a junior officer working at the Kenya office at the UN Headquarters in New York, but I foresee a problem in us signing this treaty.” That is now water under the bridge. It is upon this House under Article 1 of the Constitution that hon. Onyonka, my good friend, has cited that the sovereign power under this Constitution is delegated to the following State organs---"
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