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    "id": 388571,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "up with the solution that we go to The Hague and not have the prosecutions done in Kenya. I believe that, that was at that particular time because of the circumstances that were pertaining at that time. But since then, Kenyans have had a change of mind, up to and including this particular moment today. They have changed their minds. Hon. Speaker, Sir, since there is no law that is cast in stone, if the ICC wanted the cases to be tried in Kenya at that particular moment, why is it that today, when Kenyans are willing to prosecute those cases here, they cannot allow it? It is very important to note that in the last few months when the case for the Deputy President was being recommended to be prosecuted in Tanzania or Kenya, nine judges voted for it while four actually voted against it. They could not meet the threshold. It, therefore, means that the ICC is very much unwilling to have the cases prosecuted here because those are not just the cases of justice, but it is more or less a political case. Hon. Speaker, Sir, when you look at the history of the ICC – and I want to, in particular, look at the history of the USA – when Bill Clinton was in power, he only signed the Rome Statute. But he did not ratify it. When Bush came into power, he actually made it very, very clear to the world that America was not willing to be part of the Rome Statute. But what happened after that? When the Obama Administration came into power, it has assumed a different role. That is because the Obama Administration, despite Bush saying that they do not want to be in the Rome Statute, it has more or less established what we could call a “friendly working relationship” with ICC. They have actually been attending functions and conferences by ICC. As late as in 2010 in Uganda, in the ICC Review Conference, when Uganda was seeking the ICC support in trying the Lord’s Resistance Army culprits, it is important to note that while the Americans actually strike what they call a “friendly relationship” with ICC, they have totally rejected to sign the Rome Statute. I remember very clearly that when the country went to the polls early this year, the American Government through its envoy in Kenya, warned Kenyans that electing certain individuals---"
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