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"content": "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. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the investigator of the ICC, the famous Ocampo, never did any investigation. We, as a country, gave him all the respect. He came here, enjoyed and we showed him our animals thinking that he was doing the work, but he came here as a tourist. Finally, he pronounced the names of the six individuals claiming that they were the ones with the greatest responsibilities. If investigations had been carried out very well, I do not think the minimum threshold for ICC would have been met. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say that neither the President, hon. Uhuru Kenyatta nor the Deputy President, hon. William Ruto, were seeking for presidential votes. They were just in the team. How they picked the two and, subsequently, others, who I believe they were escorting the two, was purely political. Some people sat somewhere, crafted a deal and said they have to get rid of these people so that some preferred candidates be in the ballot box come 2013. Thank God, He is there and He is overall. You cannot defeat God. The wishes of our God are there and that is why today we have hon. Uhuru Kenyatta as the President of the Republic of Kenya and hon. William Ruto as the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya. There were so many people who said that there are consequences. They made a lot of allegations. Surprising enough, the same people today are inviting and dining with the President and the Deputy President because they have known that they did not succeed in their game plan. Therefore, even the invitation or the summons to the President to appear before the ICC, to me, it was just pure politics. The ICC wanted to prove to the world that they have the power and they can do anything to our African leaders. I want to thank the President for saying that he would obey the summons. I also thank him for convening Parliament to pronounce the decision that he was going to The Hague as Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. 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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