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    "id": 388462,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker for this opportunity. The Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs met on Tuesday to discuss the matter around the JSC and the oversight of the JSC. But it came to our attention that there was a discussion on the ICC. The Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs decided to meet today to discuss and give more weight the question of the ICC. Hon. Speaker, Sir, the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee takes the view that this is both political and a legal process. We are alive to both the politics and the legal aspect of it. But the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in discussing the matter of the ICC did choose to be guided by three prongs; one is around the presidency and many concerns about the immunities available in law around the presidency and subjecting a sitting President to trial. But the Committee resolved or decided to seek an amendment which I think will be coming later on, on the matter of the trail calendar. The Committee is concerned that the President and the Deputy President should not be out of this country at the same time. The trial calendar should be set in a way that there is no vacuum in leadership and that is the matter we think the case should be able to take care of. The Committee also looked at the question of why the ICC is here. One of those questions is the fight against impunity. So, the Committee, like the Committee before it in the 10th Parliament proposes the creation of a special division of the High Court with a special prosecutor and a special investigation department so that the cases that need to be tried are actually tried here in Kenya. Lastly, the Committee looked at the question of victims and proposed that there be a quick and urgent liberation and reconciliation mechanism for victims. That this National Assembly, in the Supplementary Budget are going to set aside Kshs1 billion for that purpose; three religious leaders be appointed one from the main stream religion, one from the evangelical and one from the Islam to lead this process. We think in those ways, we do not then need the ICC. So, the Committee supports the move to localize these matters, but to look at victims, impunity and to ensure that the President and the Deputy President are not out of the country on trial at the same time. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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