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    "id": 492390,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/492390/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the deliberations of this august House on the President’s Speech, we must as the democratically elected representatives of the people of the Republic of Kenya discuss it. Look at the personification of the sovereignty of the nation; we must rise above party and coalition lines. We must behold and set aside partisan interests and approach these issues raised today in the Speech in a patriotic and Kenyan manner. This House must, in discussing this Speech - and that is my plea - recall the resolution of the House regarding the ICC. Now that we are discussing a matter touching on the ICC, I have been very consistent as a Member of Parliament in the last Parliament and as a Member of Parliament in the Eleventh Parliament that the whole ICC quagmire; the whole of the ICC case in Kenya is so schemed; it is so tailored from the days of the Waki Report. One of the fundamental questions people are not asking themselves is that under the Commission of Inquiry Act, Section 8, when commissions are formed in this country, they are formed and paid for by the taxpayers’ money. Section 8 of the Commissions of Inquiry Act says that upon completion of a Commission’s report, they can only hand it over to the President of the Republic of Kenya. That is the law. It is not hon. A.B. Duale saying it. I was shocked that at the time hon. Justice Waki completed his report, a man I respect a lot and has one million questions to answer, decided to bypass---"
}