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    "id": 70292,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Konchella",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Sitelu Konchella",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the clarification I would like to seek from the Prime Minister is as follows. We have had a constitutional review process in this country, and the new Constitution was promulgated on 27th August, 2010. This process will end by the year 2015, when the enabling Acts will have been enacted by this House to operationalise the new Constitution of Kenya. Therefore, to meet that threshold, this country requires proper governance. Secondly, we have the ICC process, which is supposed to handle a certain situation and manage the problems we have had because of the election that we had. We also have the national reconciliation process, which is also supposed to take place, so that the people of Kenya can come together, and so that by the time the new Constitution becomes fully operational, the people are able to live in peace and harmony. Why are we, therefore, allowing this nation to go down? We know that there is going to be a problem? We must go the way of peace. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the national interest and the general international concern. Ours is the national interest. Our national interest is putting this country together to allow the processes to go on. If the ICC wants to come and take away anybody from Kenya, let them come after 2015, when we will have gone through all the processes we have set ourselves to. If there will be any other problem thereafter, that will be the time they should come and collect whoever they will want to get. Now, saying that people should go to the Hague when we are in the process of re-building this nation, or bringing our people together, is not advisable. In this regard, therefore, the President and the Prime Minister have a duty to tell us whether we want a nation that is together, and which can go on until the operationalisation of the new Constitution is realised, or they just want to cause havoc."
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