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    "id": 69136,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that Kenya promulgated a new Constitution on 27th August, 2010 which has had fundamental changes in circumstances upon which several statutes had been enacted in the past including the International Crimes Act which domesticates the Rome Statute, this House resolves that the Government takes immediate action to have the International Crimes Act repealed and further that the Government takes appropriate action to withdraw from the Rome Statute pursuant to Articles 127, 19, and 17 of the Rome Statute as read together with the principle of complementarity emphasized at Paragraph 10 of the Preamble to the Rome Statute and further that any criminal investigations or prosecutions arising out of the post election violence of 2007/2008 be undertaken under the framework of the new Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reasons I am moving this Motion are similar to the ones I gave while moving the previous Motion. I would not like to repeat myself other than to say that today, we have just passed the Judicial Service Commissioners. We believe that immediately thereafter, there will be a completely new Judiciary that is capable of handling most of the problems that all along we thought could not be handled. I believe that we have the capacity to handle these matters. With regard to the International Crimes Act, it is possible to bring in another Bill to continue to criminalize the crimes that have been mentioned by that Act. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to say much. However, I would like to ask Mr. Kioni to second."
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