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    "id": 492365,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 24(6), the thanks of the House be recorded for the exposition of public policy contained in the Address of His Excellency the President, delivered on Monday, 6th October, 2014 during the Special Sitting of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, this august House will today and tomorrow discuss the Speech given by the President to a Special Sitting of this House. As per the tradition of the House, we have limited that period from four days to two days, as per the resolution of the House Business Committee sitting of last night. Hon. Speaker, at the beginning of October 2014, our beloved nation was gripped with anxiety due to the fact that our Head of State and Commander-In-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces had been summoned by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to appear before it, not for trial but for a status conference. This was done in flagrant disregard of the resolution passed by the African Union Summit of Heads of State, in which they resolved unanimously in Addis Ababa that no head of state should be summoned to appear before The Hague-based court while in office. That resolution of the African Union was reached in a rare unanimity that saw it proclaimed in one voice, and was backed by a similar stance taken by the Assembly of States to the Rome Statute, to which Kenya is a member. Hon. Speaker, many in our nations and beyond our borders expected His Excellency the President not to honour those summons. After all, the ICC had turned down a very reasonable request by the President of appearance by way of a video-link. There were rumours that the President would not honour the summons. The counsel for the victims of the post-election violence have, in my opinion, prepared their speaking notes to just ask for the issuance of a warrant of arrest. On 6th October, 2014, President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta confounded both friends and foes by taking a most unprecedented move---"
}