Kikuyu elders yesterday met at Uhuru Park in Nairobi to seek intervention from their ancestors on the Hague cases.

Dressed in traditional regalia, the elders at 11am streamed to a corner at the park to plead the case for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Eldoret North MP William Ruto, former Public Service head Francis Muthaura and radio journalist Joshua Sang.

"Let the truth be the guiding principle at the ICC, and not justice. ICC has been rocked by manipulation and international pressures and we are here to appeal to our departed spirits that the process be guided by truth. If we go by justice, the prosecutors just like auditors by succumb to the pressures and mess up with the scales," said Kamitha Samuel, a spokesperson for the elders.

The group comprised seven of the men carried huge traditional calabash gourds, one with a polythene bag full of ash. The group was led by two elders -- one adorned in a red, white and purple robes similar to that worn by heads of the clergy and on his head a miter-a liturgical cap similar to that worn by the Catholic bishops. The other, in his 80s was dressed in Kikuyu traditional regalia with goat skin flung over his shoulders, a sheep fur headwraps, and a fly whisk in his arm.

The elders, whose faces were covered in ash with chicken feather stuck in their beard and hair, walked in a straight line behind the old man brandishes his traditional fly-whisk as if giving directions and orders.

They formed a circle around the old men with the whisk and the traditional bishop and kept whispering as they encircled him performing other rituals.

And one by one the men carrying the gourds rushed to the centre and broke the gourds and return to the circle, as they are sprinkled with ash.

"Kuraga qua inyia (ceremony of calabash breaking), is a liturgical cleansing ritual, the first was done a hundred years ago to liberate the country from colonialists," said Kamitha.

"This one is to seek ancestral and godly powers to waterdown the negative effects of evil schemes hatched by external forces and unnecessary foreign pressures on the country."

He explained that the ashes are sprinkled to pacify the nation while the calabash, which represents evil spirits, is broken to signify the destruction of the spirits.

Kamitha said the feathers represent the departed spirits and that the elders had to dress in a grostesgue manner with their clothes worn inside out and trousers and courts facing the back, to communicate with the ancestors.

However, Kamitha said the event was not political, adding that the elders wanted to exorcise bad omen from the country a head of the general election.

The ceremony lasted about thirty minutes.

and the elders left the venue without uttering a word, to curious onlookers who had gathered to witness it.

Seven of the men carried huge traditional calabash gourds, one with a polythene bag full of ash. Two others one adorned in a red, white and purple robes similar to that worn by heads of the clergy and on his head a miter-a liturgical cap similar to that worn by the catholic bishops. The other old man in his 80s is dressed in Kikuyu traditional regalia with goat skin flung over his shoulders, a sheep fur headwraps, and a fly whisk in his arm.

The two lead the group walking in a straight line as the old man brandishes his traditional fly-whisk as if giving directions and orders.

The group their faces painted with ash and their beards and hair chicken feathers mounted on them, quickly form a circle around the old man with the whisk and the traditional bishop.

As they whisper and go round the two elders, one by one the men carrying the gourds rushes to the centre and breaks the gourds and return to the circle, as they are sprinkled with ash.

"Kuraga qua inyia (ceremony of calabash breaking), is a liturgical cleansing ritual, the first was done a hundred years ago to liberate the country from colonialists," Kamitha Samuel a spokesperson for Kikuyu culture association says.

"This one is to seek ancestral and godly powers to waterdown the negative effects of evil schemes hatched by external forces and unnecessary foreign pressures on the country," he adds.