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    "id": 492517,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "He also showed the respect he has for African Union’s resolution passed by all Heads of State that no sitting President of any African nation should go before the ICC as a President. That is why he invoked the necessary constitutional provision and elevated his Deputy President to serve as an Acting President. That shows the respect he has for the African Union, of which we are a very strong member. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the President also addressed the issue of IDPs. The effort the Government has made to resettle them and the need for us to resettle more of them who are yet to be resettled--- That is the only way in which we can deal with issues of the post-election violence of 2007/2008. More needs to be done; he mentioned what needs to be done; there are many of them who need justice and that justice must be delivered however late. Those of us in both the Tenth Parliament and the Eleventh Parliament have pronounced ourselves on the issue of the ICC. In both the Tenth and Eleventh Parliaments, we have passed resolutions to withdraw Kenya from the Rome Statute. It is unfortunate that the Tenth Parliament domesticated the Rome Statute; the ICC law. To be honest - this is my personal opinion - this is basically an imperial court, financed by imperial powers with imperial intentions. It is an imperial tool for control and subjugation by these imperial powers of poor African nations and many other poor countries. If there is justice in this world, the people who destroyed Baghdad without any evidence of weapons of mass destruction; people who destroyed Libya without evidence of any kind should be before the ICC. They are not there yet they are the ones who are dragging our President and Deputy President before the ICC. That is not justice and that is why I strongly support our country’s withdrawal from the ICC, not yesterday but the day before. I am happy that both in the Tenth and Eleventh Parliament, we have taken steps to withdraw this country from this imperial court. 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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