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    "id": 493972,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Keter",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Cheruiyot Keter",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this important Motion. From the outset, I want to say that I am one of those Members who have really been to The Hague since it started, even before the six were named. This is because of one thing, which I believe; I will always maintain that nobody planned violence in Kenya. I will say that daytime and at night because I remember very well for those of us who were in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). We were campaigning all over the country. We went round looking for votes. After that, there was violence after the announcement of the presidential results. When the results of all the respective Members of Parliament were announced, there was nothing. However, violence erupted after the delay of the presidential results. It is good that my colleague, Sen. Ongoro, across there, was with me in ODM. We went round together soliciting for votes. There was violence everywhere in the country. There was violence in Rift Valley, Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and so on. Basically, there was violence everywhere in the country. Therefore, my conviction is that nobody planned violence. I have been there and looked at the way things are. I am of the opinion that we, as a country, made a wrong decision by ratifying the Rome Statute. I do not believe that the ICC is the court of repute. It is the worst court. I cannot equate it to anything good. This is in the sense that the people controlling it are people who do not believe in the court itself. Americans pulled out of the ICC. They do not subscribe to it. They describe it using all the terms, you can name. No American can appear before the ICC. Yet they lecture us, Kenyans or African countries, that we must respect the ICC because it is an international court. That is double-speak. Why can they respect it themselves? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, as a country, made a wrong decision. As leaders, let us be bold enough and make a right decision regardless of the cases which are ongoing and cannot be stopped. Let us pull out of the ICC. I am one of the people who believe that we will not lose anything by pulling out of that court. The sooner we pull out it, the better for all the Kenyan generations to come. I am in support of the African Union (AU) and other African countries, which have made a resolution to that effect. 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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