Let President Uhuru Kenyatta Comply With Icc Status Request Poem by alexander opicho

Let President Uhuru Kenyatta Comply With Icc Status Request



The current protests by the jubilee members of parliament about ICC request to have President Uhuru Kenyatta attend in person the ICC status conference is misleading. The jubilee politicians need to keep off the ICC procedure and focus on local politics. Let them give chance to the lawyers who are representing President Kenyatta to give advice. In fact advice in private but not as public ranting the way Jubilee politicos are doing.The riposte type of public statements made by the politicians is a mere show of lack of discipline. And also their move to discuss the matter as parliamentarians is an act of disrespect to the court commonly, known in legal language as breach of subjudice rule. The proceedings of the ICC cannot be reviewed nor be challenged by the politicians in Kenya.

More so, the ICC is not a bandit institution that must instill fear and panicking whenever it summons one to appear before it. Even the deputy president, Mr. William Samoiea Ruto is smoothly attending the court sittings without any problem. Any decision by the court, whether negative or positive will be a matter of further legal processes. The same position applies to his fellow co-accused Joshua Arap Sang. Now it beats logic for us to have a condition that when Ruto goes to The Hague there is no risky outcome to be suspected, but if Uhuru Kenyatta is to go, it becomes a matter of rowdy and senseless political outbursts. This only calumniates into a weak defense position for President Uhuru Kenyatta.

There is no reason to justify the judicial duties of the ICC when trying Ruto and Joshua Sang, but only to demonize the same institution when it comes to trial of Uhuru Kenyatta. This can imply that some politicians already know what will happen to those attending the Haque.However; the key fact is that Jubilee politicians are not complete representatives of the forty million people of Kenya, coming from forty seven counties. Thus, they should not deface Kenya's diplomacy and foreign relations whatsoever. Let them keep off the ICC matter as their politics is already naive to this matter.

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