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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I want to send a message to the President, the Deputy President and Mr. Sang. I want to remind them that when I was the Attorney- General of the Republic, I mentioned and made a statement that, in my opinion, there was no evidence on which they could be convicted and I stand by that opinion today. Furthermore, I do not think that the threshold to attract the jurisdiction of the ICC had been met. I made that statement and I still stand by it today. So, they should not panic. They should be calm and firm and do their work as President and Deputy President without these ICC matters weakening their resolve. Furthermore, to me, the fact that as President and as Deputy President, they have nevertheless agreed to co-operate with the ICC demonstrates that they do actually believe that they are innocent. Otherwise, they would not be co-operating. Moreso, the fact that they were elected after they had been indicted before the ICC also shows that millions of people in Kenya also believe in their innocence and the ICC will also take a judicial note on that. I believe that they will be acquitted. So, let them proceed in that manner so that what we are doing here does not colour what they are doing there and which is going on very well. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to declare my self-interest. In 1980, the Secretary General of the African Bar Association, the Commissioner of the International Commissioner of Jurists together with other leaders from other continents called for the establishment of the International Commission of Jurists in Tubingen, a town in Germany. I have been involved in the drafting of the Rome Statute. When it was adopted in Rome, I was a Vice-President for Africa. I prepared a Cabinet memo which agreed that 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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