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    "id": 493212,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not the first time that the distinguished Nominated Senator is veering off the track. For his information, we do not have any House Business Committee in the Senate. So, I do not know which Committee he was saying that I sit in. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to caution my colleagues; that always imagine the shoe on the other leg. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been an incredible deterrent to many misdeeds in Africa and other parts of the world. I have said and can say again that the conduct of the ICC has not been satisfactory to many, including me. I have never understood why George Bush, the former President of America and Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) have not been indicted at The Hague for the atrocities committed in Iraq. I said this even when I was the Minister for Foreign Affairs to my counterparts from those countries. I have never understood why the ICC has not even opened an investigation file against Israel for the atrocities that they commit almost as an annual event on the people of Palestine. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the ICC must act across board. You did say that two wrongs do not make a right. The fact that one robber has gone free does not mean that arresting the other robber is wrong. The fact that one murderer has escaped the dragnet of the law, does not mean that the other murderer should be let to escape as well. In this country, people died in their thousands. My community in Trans-Nzoia, Kipkaren and Mt. Elgon lost many people. I have not said that it is the Deputy President Ruto, or President Uhuru who killed them, but the investigators said that they are culpable and should go through a trial. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know the history of Africa; how Idd Amin bastardized and murdered the people of Uganda en masse. Then, there was no ICC. You know the story of Jean Bedel Bokassa in Central Africa, Fode Sanko in Liberia, Mobutu Sese Seko in Congo and how the leadership in Angola visited untold harm on their own people. You know the FRELIMO and RENAMO war in Mozambique and how they were even poisoning boreholes where people draw water. Men, women and children died enmasse. The ICC has come as a deterrent. That we unfortunately find ourselves there is not an issue. We are founder signatories to the ICC. I thank the President for acknowledging that Kenya signed to the ICC. Contrary to the prophets of doom, he made no insinuation that he wants to pull Kenya out of the ICC. I am sure he did this because he knows that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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