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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity and thank the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing this Motion. Recently, I had an opportunity of listening to the wife of the late Dedan Kimathi in a function that we had at a place called Bahati. That old lady, despite her age, still recognizes the issues at the ICC. We were around nine hon. Members and she challenged us in that meeting to come to Parliament and resolve to delete Kenya from the ICC as signatory to the Rome Statute. She spoke very passionately about what they went through when they were fighting for the independence of this country. She gave a narration and her only request was, let us not put to waste the effort that the late Dedan Kimathi put to get victory to this country. Let his fighting for freedom not look like it was in vain. Secondly, I come from a constituency where we had over 12,000 IDPs and we still have a place where the Government had given them to rest as they await to be given land. I want to thank the Government for giving them land to settle down but recently when Madam Bensouda came on her mission to try and get the true stories on the issues of the IDPs --- That is why I rise to support this Motion because of the voices of the victims. In that meeting, the victims themselves made it very clear to Madam Bensouda that this country has healed. This country has reconciled and asked her as the prosecutor to withdraw the cases that are facing the three Kenyans at the ICC. This was the message from the victims. When they heard that the House was being recalled and, of course, it was in the Press, that it is because we wanted to pull out of the ICC, a few of their leaders called us and we went there. They had the same sentiments. They said: “As our representatives, go and echo our voices that we want to ask justice, not only for the three 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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