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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, at this stage we are in a political and legal quagmire as a country. Listening to the lawyers, whom I would like to lead me in this kind of debate, I am amazed at how they are reading the Rome Statute. The Rome Statute, and Mr. Speaker, you know, does not take you there for trial unless you do not fulfill two conditions. The first one is that either you are unwilling to sort yourself out in your country or you are unable. That is the Rome Statute. This means that with all the good things my colleagues have said here about fixing the future so that we do things locally, when in future we start demonstrating that we are willing to do it locally and we are able to do it locally, nobody shall take you to The Hague. That is the law. For this reason, I want to disclose here and now, and with all due respect to some of you Senators who do not know us, we have walked this terrain for many years. Unknown to some of you, even President Uhuru and Deputy President Ruto, are closer to some of the Senators in the Opposition than they are to you. We are therefore not here advocating for a case of a quick fix for the Deputy President and the President. We are here because there are two types of people in The Hague. We have the accused, they are praying for justice and we have the victims, they are also praying for justice. My dear Senators, so distinguished the way we are, why can we not promote national cohesion by insisting that let there be justice for those who are at The Hague as the accused and those who have gone there to seek for justice as victims? That is the Kenya we must build today. I say these things knowing very well that I come from Kakamega. The inability of exhaustive investigations has made it difficult for people to understand properly the history, genesis and content of post-election violence. Who does not know that people died in Kakamega in their hundreds? I never saw William Ruto and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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