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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, lastly, I want to also echo my opinion on the issue of shuttle diplomacy. I have said - and I want to say without shame or fear of contradiction - that I do not wish to see a Kenyan tried in a foreign court. I do not think it is right. But the same Statute gives us a way out. The same Members of Parliament who said “do not be vague, say Hague” are now talking about a local mechanism. They are not talking about a local tribunal or a special court; they are talking about the much discredited court system. It will not work! It is an exercise in futility! There is nobody to blame because we drove ourselves there. We refused to sit together as a people. We should not only be talking about six people; we should also be talking about the plight of the millions of people. During that violence, my own youth leader was killed by a DC in broad daylight. He opened fire in Akala Market and shot people. It was Eng. Gumbo’s DC. What am I supposed to tell the mother who keeps asking me: “Is the Government going to compensate us?” We need a process! My own suggestion has always been: Let us go the South African way. If there are any Kenyans who killed other Kenyans, even policemen who massacred Kenyans, they are living with the guilt of murder. The blood of some people is on their heads and they need a chance to talk to somebody, be it religious leaders, so that the country can move forward together. As we speak, yesterday, the so-called shuttle diplomacy team went out with the Presidential Jet out of Wilson Airport as if there are two Governments. What would be so wrong with Mr. Musyoka sitting us down and asking: “What is the best way out of this?” Why does he think that he is the only one who can do--- What does he expect to achieve? I want to tell you what I think he expects to achieve. He wants to say “I tried” for the sake of sympathy votes. That is because he is leaving us here. We came out of an ODM meeting and said: “Let us find a way and be consistent with what we have been saying.” Then, less than 24 hours later, they take the Presidential Jet to go to Yaoundé, Cameroon. Who in Cameroon can save our people from going to the Hague? Who in Cameroon? What powers does anybody in Cameroon have other, than a waste of public funds?"
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