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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Moses Kuria",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Gatundu South",
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    "content": "we were in that court room, the President was not asked to say anything. He did not say anything. The following day it became clear to me why the President was in that court when we read some reports from New York about some members of the civil society who had travelled to the United Nations (UN) for a conference and to ask for sanctions to be applied against Kenya. I was wondering when that conference was organized, given that the Status Conference had been on the previous day. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so it dawned on me that that conference had been set up in the hope that His Excellency the President would not turn up at The Hague. You know, it became clear to me that maybe we had been wondering about the party that bears the greatest responsibility for the post-election violence. It was all clear to me. The parties are all the same. We are talking about Africa Centre for Open Governance (AfriCOG), Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ) and Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC). That is the same cast. The forest might be different at different times but the monkeys are the always same. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the names are the same: John Githongo, Maina Kiai, Gladwell Otieno and Harun Ndubi. The sponsor of all this is the same and it is one American fellow by the name of George Soros. For how long is he going to be allowed to destabilise this country the same way he did to Ukraine and Georgia? He came to this country in 2005 when he set up the Open Society Initiative in East Africa. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, given that it is only two years after that, that we went through the most painful period our country has ever known since Independence, is it not time to declare George Soros an enemy of this country? Is it not time to declare the Open Society Initiative in East Africa a terrorist organisation? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for people to go all the way to New York and ask that sanctions be applied against their own country is an act of treason, and I want to bring two Bills to this House. It is time for us to amend the International Crimes Act, so that we remove this pretence about domesticating foreign courts in our country. Secondly, we have been waiting for a long time for this House to bring forward the issue of amending the Public Benefits Organisations Act, so that the likes of Maina Kiai, Gladwell Otieno and Harun Ndubi can be put in their rightful place. We are going to do that as a House and I am sure that both the Jubilee and Opposition sides will support this one. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when it comes to the issue of His Excellency the President handing over power to his Deputy President, I think I want to support one of the speakers who said that this is an act of stabilising this country. What we are going to see is that this stability will go on for the next 20 years, and I want to ask the Opposition to---"
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