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    "id": 69942,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to request from the outset that this matter be handled very carefully. Allow me to ask Mr. Mungatana to give you the International Crimes Act, because you do not seem to have it, so that you can look at it as I make the point that I want to make. If you look at that Act and go all the way to the end, you will find that there is a very unusual situation on page 541. The Rome Statute is the first schedule of the International Crimes Act. Therefore, when in Kenya you refer to the Rome Statute, you are not referring to a document in The Hague. It is the First schedule and it has been made so by Section 2 of the International Crimes Act. That is the first point. The other point is, and the reason I seek forbearance of the House to approach this matter very carefully, is to refer to Section 3 of our new Constitution. Section 3 of the Sixth Schedule of our Constitution is on page 193. Sections in Schedule Six are referred to as Articles in the main body of the Constitution so that the distinction is clear. Section 3(2) says:"
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