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    "id": 529531,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can clarify to the distinguished Senator that she is not one of those. You know how Italians speak. They speak with a lot of movement of hands. I was gesturing and not pointing at you at all. I would not point at a distinguished lady like you in a matter such as this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was making my final point; that the ICC is a necessary deterrent to dictatorships world all over. If you are not a dictator, you have nothing to worry. If you respect the rule of law, you have nothing to worry. You also know that if the ICC was there in the old days, perhaps, my brothers and sisters from Pokot would never have suffered the indignities that they have suffered in the history of this country. The colonial Government would close West Pokot and move in the army which would rape women, beat and kill people. The ICC would have been there to protect those invalids and innocent. Now that it is there, you will never see such things happen. Everybody knows that it is there and will come for you. Even those of us who want leadership know that you cannot conduct your affairs recklessly. That is why today, you see even some of our brothers in South Sudan might end up there. I have talked to my friends there and they say that the things that are going on may find some people indicted. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at Africa, you have a sigh of relief. As a student of African politics, apart from being a lawyer, I know that today Africa is conducting its affairs differently. Today, we do not have presidents in Africa who can send tanks to roll over a village because it does not support him or it opposed him. It will not happen, thanks to the ICC. That our President is unfortunately there, it is the way it is. We wish him well. Let him go through it and come back. However, I will not stand here and denounce and renounce the ICC, call it names and develop a short fuse such that every time a name is mentioned, I jump up as if I am being electrocuted. That is not how to debate in this Chamber. Let us debate soberly. Listen to me and I will also listen to 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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