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    "id": 509465,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms) Odhaimbo- Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "What this Report has done is basically to tell us what those treaties are, which we already know, and if we do not know then we can Google and know them. The other thing that it has done is to tell us what laws have been enacted without telling us what measures have been put in place. If you want to see how confused this Report is, look at page 4. The Report refers to the matter of Zipporah Wambui Mathara (2010) that says the treaties are self-executing. In the next paragraph it takes a totally different approach. It even shows you that the people who were doing this Report had no clue of what they should have done. They were completely clueless of what they were talking about. Having noted that, I would like to say that I am very disappointed in terms of the context of what Kenya has done in meeting its international obligations. I want to lend my voice to some of the issues hon. Ababu has mentioned. I was telling some of my colleagues from Jubilee that it looks like the only statute that the Jubilee side knows about is the Rome Statute. There are many more statutes other than the Rome Statute. It is unfortunate that you actually look at the way we have politicised the Rome Statute; we completely miss the mark with respect to the reason for which the Rome Statute was made. It was not meant to target African leaders. I, therefore, want to congratulate the International Criminal Court (ICC) for being just and giving a fair decision when they deem that there is no evidence. I want to indicate that I proactively brought a Bill to this Parliament which passed it into law, namely, the Victim Protection Act. I personally have no confidence that there will be any justice for victims of the post election violence (PEV). For this country to move forward, we need to remember that there are people who have lost their limbs. As one of the members of the Select Committee on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) when I visited western Kenya, that also hon. Ababu has made reference to, I saw many Members of Parliament in tears. We saw a woman who came with the head of her husband. We saw people without legs. One of the people was reported afterwards to have died. If you see the way we were treating those IDPs, we were saying they had been integrated into communities, and they were not being paid fairly. I said it then in Parliament and I will say it now; we discovered that people were being paid money according to which region of this country they came from. If we want to move forward, as a country, we must stop that level of discrimination. I was hoping that those are the things we should be speaking to, and saying IDPS had been settled. I passed by some of them recently and they were an embarrassment to this country."
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