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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "As a politician, that approach signaled that the ICC trials were going to be political and were intended to demonstrate something which I am not sure Kenyans were aware of. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, certainly, although one of the judges has since died he believed that the cases never met the threshold to be in The Hague. Nobody, even us as laymen, or the President and Deputy President at that time, deserved to be taken there. Why did we reach there? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we reached there because I was in it myself. I witnessed everything up to the formation of the Grand Coalition Government. We went in there because over 2,000 candidates who campaigned in the elections of 2007 relied on hate speech, false accusations of other tribes, false promises of utopia and all sorts of benefits like land and so on; that some people would get at the disadvantage of others. So many candidates were telling their voters that they were poor because others were rich. So, if anybody was to be charged, then it should have been all the candidates who contested at that time and who, in the course of too much hate speech being involved, led to the spontaneous violence that we experienced in 2007. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I had the experience – a very nasty experience - of ferrying Luos from Karatina to Jamhuri Park, but there were no Luo lorries to do so. I had to rely on Somali lorries. I had the experience of picking the mother-in-law of my son from Uasin-Gishu to bring her to Karen, to my son’s house. I had the experience of picking three of my contractors who were Kikuyus living in my home. They were being surrounded to be killed. I had to arrange for them to be transported to Molo where they could feel safe. It is a shame where we had reached. But we had reached there because of our political practices at that time. Unfortunately, those political practices have not ended today. There is a political practice which is not good. Even the Bible says that you must not celebrate the misfortunes of your enemy or anybody else. We have leaders who are celebrating the misfortunes of our people. All the “Ocampo Six” accused people were sacrificial lambs on behalf of all Kenyans who fought in 2007 and 2008. President Uhuru has demonstrated that he is a humble and committed servant of the people. He forgave people who threw shoes, stones and what-have-you in Migori. We better copy him and those who wish Uhuru bad luck are, unfortunately, not going to get any good luck in return. Thank you."
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