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    "id": 492522,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "We should be careful. I have seen that there are times when we make rules a bit short–sighted or rather self-serving. This is because at that time, you have a feeling that you may not be subjected to them. I have in mind what was happening when hon. Members in this House were all shouting that “Let us not be vague; let us go to The Hague.” At that time, the feeling, or the thought, might have been that this will apply to other people and not me. We should make rules knowing that these rules, or laws, may apply to us at one time or another. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have also heard some hon. Member say that it is high time we pulled out of the ICC. I think this would be ill-advised and it will not be in the interests of this country in the long-term. Yes, you may have a fair and democratic leader at one time, but you do not know what is going to happen in the next five or ten years. Therefore, when we make these suggestions, we should be very careful. We should think about the long-term implications of our suggestions rather than how it suits me this time, and it does not matter what will happen tomorrow or the day after. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, going through the Address of his Excellency the President, there are a number of issues that were addressed. I have seen where we are told that we are now a middle-income economy. I am not sure that the ordinary Kenyan knows what this means, or how they have benefited from this. I hope the Government will come out clearly to tell us the difference. Otherwise, I support the position his Excellency the President took to submit himself to the ICC."
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