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"speaker_name": "Mr. Mwakwere",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. When we write the history of our misadventure with the ICC, my name will be mentioned. It was in 2005 when I appended my signature for and on behalf of the Government and the people of Kenya, to ratify the Rome Statute. The logic used at that time was one that was giving us a lot of hope that eventually, the ICC would be a credible organ that would help us move in the right direction to bring peace and tranquility as a nation. Unfortunately, the reverse has happened. I am totally disappointed and ashamed that my signature appears there. When we take action in a matter like this where many Kenyans died, people were maimed for life and property destroyed, we should use that experience to ensure that it never happens again. If it happens again; because we are human and there is a probability, however, remote that something could trigger fighting in the whole country, we should look back and say that our fighting stopped in 2008 because of this and that reason. Those reasons are extremely important. Therefore, the ICC should have asked itself before it went ahead to name people. How did our fight stop in 2008? Did it stop because hon. Kofi Annan was in Nairobi? Is it because Graca Machel was here and our distinguished legislators were meeting at the Serena Hotel? Did all this fighting stop because we thought the ICC was coming to try some people in Kenya? The answer is no. We should ask ourselves: “How did the fighting stop?” That is a very important starting point. Again, we have got to ask ourselves; People fought in Mombasa, in fact, in Kisauni seven people died. Did that happen because Amb. Muthaura got together with Major General Ali, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, Mr. Kosgey, Mr. Ruto and Mr. Sang, the journalist? Did they get together to say that the people of Kisauni should fight? What about Kibera? Is it because those six got together – I do not know under whose chairmanship – and ordered the people of Kibera to uproot railway lines? Are they the ones who are responsible for the gangs that were moving towards the centre of Nairobi to destroy it? How was that stopped? The ICC just goes ahead and names people without doing any investigations. That makes me feel ashamed that we put our country in the hands of the ICC or the Rome Statute. We can withdraw and that should be now. It should also be a lesson not only to Kenyans, but the whole of Africa and the oppressed part of the globe. It is time to withdraw because there is neither fairness nor consideration on the plight of the people who should be helped. This is the time to withdraw because if we do not, then we shall be leaving under the threats of being taken as people who will serve as an example to the rest of the world. Surely, an individual who wants to be fair and impartial and wants to"
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