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    "content": "it is coloured with a few irrelevant issues. The message was that the President was going to The Hague to attend court and he will come back. That cannot be a matter for addressing the nation! That cannot be a matter for addressing Parliament! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am on record in this country as having said that Kenyan problems require Kenyans solutions; I did say that. I opposed taking any Kenyan to The Hague. Many people even called me names and you heard somebody mentioning here the monotonous statement of “Do not be vague, go to The Hague.” When the President was summoned to go to The Hague this time round – and you can bear me out or anyone of my colleagues who listen to news can bear me out – I said the President should go to The Hague. Why? Because as a law abiding citizen, he is fully aware that he has been indicted; he is an accused person before a competent court of law and he has a duty to obey any summons that this court may, from time to time, give for him to go to court. When I said that, there was a round of chorus from Members of the Jubilee congregation who said “the President must not go to The Hague.” Of course, they were speaking out of emotion and ignorance; and they went on with the chorus. But the moment they learnt that the President was, in fact, going to The Hague, it became what you would call the height of political buffoonery. All of them turned around and said “the President is great; he is patriotic; he is going to The Hague; he must go to The Hague!” People who respect themselves do not behave like this; leaders do not behave like this because the President was not doing anybody a favour by obeying court summons to go to The Hague. He was respecting a court of law; he was respecting international law. When we now sit here, pretending and talking as if the ICC is on trial here, we should know that the ICC is not on trial. The President is innocent until proven guilty---"
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