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    "content": "It would be interesting to see how these judges are going to behave because the prosecutor has no evidence. One lawyer was asked whether he had evidence that people were given money and he said that he did not have the evidence that they had or had not been given money. The country made a mistake by letting this case go to the Hague; we entered into the heart of neo-colonialism. The neo-colonialists want to develop international law as a result of this case. We are supporting imperialism without our knowledge, especially when we decided to send this case to The Hague. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think that we should leave this matter to competent people who are doing this job willingly, because the President said here that this is not the time for anxiety. It is time to be proud of the democracy that we have built. You can understand because the Head of State, unlike 20 years ago, can just willingly board a plane and go to appear before a foreign court. I think we have achieved quite a lot. Personally, I believe in the rule of law and the only way we can achieve constitutionalism is when we have people of high authority, like the President who has accepted to follow the rule of law. We hope that, that rule of law which was followed – although it is from outside Kenya – even locally in Kenya here, we will all have to present ourselves to the law so that we can achieve constitutionalism which will be a big gift for this nation in the next many years to come. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to speak about what those who spoke before me said, like the Senate Minority Leader. We should also become serious when we are talking about a matter of this nature. Just because you are in the Opposition, it does not mean that you can speak outside the subject like that. I do not want to develop this line of thought because it may be assumed that I am questioning the Chair, but I believe that a majority of us have been talking outside the scope of this Motion all through. They have just secured an opportunity to say so many things. I believe in proposing solutions; I do not believe in making statements, as I said earlier in another forum. There is a time when hon. Shikuku, Mark Mwithaga, Mbogo and I, used to decide to speak the whole day from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. We continued that way until everybody realized that we were just misusing the authority of the Members of Parliament (MPs). Therefore, talking and talking too much does not help anybody. Let us go to the point and thank the President and his Deputy for what they are doing in this country, particularly by showing the whole world---"
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