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    "content": "Justice should also have a similar jurisdiction. There is no harm in doing that whatsoever, because the ICC is a complementary court to the national and regional courts. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me talk just briefly about the handover. I think that Article 147(3) of the Constitution is very clear that when the President is absent or is temporarily incapacitated, automatically as a matter of course, the Deputy President becomes the Acting President, without much further ado. But where, for some other reasons other than incapacity or absence from the country, the President wants to make the Deputy President the Acting President, then the President has discretion to decide on those matters. Where he has discretion to decide those matters, then it becomes necessary for there to be a proper instrument to make the Deputy President Acting President. Having said that, there is nothing in law to stop the President from doing what he did, particularly taking into account the whole background of this case, including the African Union resolutions and so on. He had to show and tell the entire world what he was doing. It was not bad for us also to know what he wanted to do. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we do not want the ICC to play the role that the colonial government courts did during the colonial times to stifle the struggle for our Independence and the establishment of our rights. However, the ICC would now be doing it at the international level. That is why I have called for a re-examination of that, to ensure that, that does not happen."
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