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    "id": 388396,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I do not want to go the direction of saying that one of the people heckling me admitted on national television on a Sunday evening that senior USA Senators saying that the ICC is a transgression. It is a trespassing body to the USA sovereignty. You will get expression to the effect that if a matter is not approved or congressionally authorized then that matter is not legitimate to the American mandate. Therefore, we sit as a House and we seek to redeem the Kenyan image. We seek to reiterate that which was done in 2010, 2011 and 2012. A Motion was finally brought by one hon. Isaac Rutto which was passed by the House seeking Kenya to withdraw from the Rome Statute and now hon. Aden Duale, the Leader of the Majority Party is bringing a similar Motion because a flaw was caused and because the institution that had the responsibility to actually escalate and enhance that matter for resolution did not act. We are, therefore, only doing that which the 10th Parliament initiated. Our responsibility is to pursue that matter to conclusion. The national interests, Americans say, are neither preserved nor advanced by becoming a State party to the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court. That is what the Senate says. It also sought to tell Obama that he should declare that the USA does not intend to ratify the Rome Statute and that the USA does not presently consider itself to be a signatory of the Treaty whatsoever. It is very emphatic that they do not and they do not intend. What should we say in this country? Just like the Senators in America are commending President Bush for a very commendable act of the advisory that he gave to Clinton, what we are doing here is to give an advice and seek legislation in order to affirm this matter and seek resolution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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