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    "id": 388456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "with the Constitution. It means that the whole of this Motion is because of President Uhuru and his Deputy William Ruto. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I participated in campaigning for this Constitution. I voted in the referendum for this Constitution and I am very proud that this Constitution was promulgated. Those who have been in the trenches in the reform movement know that why we love the new Constitution is because we knew we would come to the country that will not matter who is the President of Kenya or the Deputy President so long as everybody in all our 42 tribes has a share of the cake or a legitimate expectation that can land him in that share of the cake. Now it is clear that because two people are subject of inquiry at the ICC, then now it becomes a national issue. That because of those two people, this country should rid itself of every protection so that issues of human rights can now be discussed only in the context of two people who are in the court of international jurisdiction. Hon. Speaker, human rights has nothing to do with being a Kenyan or an African; it is universal concept. If you are a Singaporean or if you are from Tonga Islands, or from any part of this world, when you are faced with issues of crimes against humanity, human rights is a universal issue. Today we may be very excited to say that let us withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and three years, ten or 50 years down the line, a despot comes; who will annihilate everybody who dares to say anything that can be said. That House will be thinking of how it was that this august House withdrew the protection that Kenyans have painstakingly found themselves to be the buffer that weighs upon the human rights. Let us not discuss politics, let us come to facts and bring issues that will last for the century. Hon. Speaker, Sir, Chapter One of the Constitution which deals with the Sovereignty of the people and Supremacy of the Constitution gives us the pride that we should have systems that will---"
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