Photo: Rick Bajornas This week the ICC held a status conference in regard to the cases involving four Kenyans indicted for crimes against humanity. While former head of public service ambassador Francis Muthaura and radio journalist Joshua arap Sang decided to travel to the Hague for the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Eldoret North MP William Ruto opted for a video conference, probably owing to their busy campaign schedule.
The Kenyan cases at the ICC have touched off a heated debate as the March 4 polls draw near. There have been concerns that, in the event of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto winning the presidency and deputy presidency respectively, they may use the powers at their disposal to defy the ICC. These fears still linger on despite the pair's insistence that whether they win or lose, they will still co-operate with the ICC.
Western nations have warned that even though the choice of who should lead Kenya rests with Kenyans, their countries have a policy of limiting themselves to "only the most essential" contact with ICC indictees. Bearing this in mind, one can understand why the probable election of Uhuru and Ruto has elicited much concern.
The prospect of influential countries slapping economic sanctions on Kenya in the event of Uhuru and Ruto winning and consequently defying the ICC is reason enough to cause apprehension. The repercussions of such eventuality are dire and would take Kenya backwards on virtually all fronts.
Kenyans can only hope that as Uhuru and Ruto have voluntarily submitted themselves to the status conference, they will also cooperate with the ICC even if they win the March 4 general election. The international law under which the ICC operates is part of our law and we have no option but to cooperate with the court.
The good news is that the ICC is an inherently impartial court and anyone who is innocent and is taken before the court has nothing to fear. But most importantly, cooperating with the court will certainly spare Kenyans the agony of being excluded by the international community.
Quote of the day: "Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." G. M. Trevelyan, an English historian was born on February 16, 1876.
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AS OUR AUTHOR HAS STATED THIS IS AN IMPERIALIST COURT' AND THERE IS EVERYTHING TO FEAR.. JUDGEING FROM PAST CASES OF WITNESES FLOWN SO MANY MILES,' WITH THEM GIVING PEOPLE INCENTIVES TO TALK WITH BRIBERY OF STETTLING IN EUROPE ECT.. THE ACCUSED HAVE MUCH TO FEAR.. KENYANS MUST KEP IN MIND THAT WHATEVER WE SEE IN KENYA IS A RESIDUAL TASTE OF WHAT THE FORMER IMPERIALIST HAS LEFT BEHIND. SHOULD THESE CRIMES BE AS THEY SAY THEN WE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO THE HAGUE AND OUT OF BRTISHN COURTS FOR THIER ROLES IN THE RAPES MURDERS TORTURES KIDNAPPING SODOMISING OF KENYANS DURING THIER EXTENSIVE IMPERILIST COLONIAL DOMINATION OF KENYA. WHEN WE SPEAK OF WAR CRIMES THEY ARE THE WORLDD LEADERS' ENSLAVERS FRAUDSSTRERS PLAGIARIST EMBEZZELERS AND IT DOES NOT END THERE!!!. WHEN WE SEE AND WATCH EVEN CLOSER TO HOME IN SYRTIA AS THEY CONTINUE TO FACILIATE A WAR IN SYRIA WHILE AIDING AND ABBETTING IN CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY WHILE PUTTING ON THIS FACE AND FACADE OF BEING THE LEADERS OF MORALITY. "NO ENSLAVER STATES HAS THE RIGHT TO BECOME WORLDS MORALIST OR CONSCINECE??????. AS WE WATCH THE SUFFERING ANMD DEATHS IN SYRIA THE MURDE4RS OF CHILDREN IN AFGHANISATN WE SEE THIS HYPOCRTICAL DOUBLE STANDARDS THAT THEY USE TO PLAY WORLDS BIGGEST HEGEMONIST!!!!!!!!. KENYANS SHOULD THEY NOT WANT TO COORPERATE WITH THE ICC HAS A RIGHT ESPECAILLY WHEN THOSE WHOM ARE THEIER BIGGEST CRTICS HAS SUCH AN OMINOUS RECORD AS WE SPEAK. YOU CAN NOT HAVE YOUR HAND INHTE COOLKIE JAR' THEN TELL ME DONT PUT YOUR HAND THERE OR I WILL CHOP IT OFF???? KENYA LIKE ALL AFRICA MUST SEEK TO STRENGTHEN AFRICAS NCOMMITTMENT TO EACH OTHER! TRADE INFRASTRUCTURE STRONG INSTITUTIONS MUST BE A PRIRORITY THE IC IS NOT. AGAIN I QUERIEWHY DOES ONE HAVE TO GO SO FAR TO FIND JUSTICE??? IF THE WEST WAS INETERSTED IN STYRENGTHENING AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS THIS SHOULD BEGIN AT HOME!!! WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS WE WILL GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO WATCH TV BUT WE WONT GIVE YOU THE SATTELITE SO YOU CAN WATCH IN IN AFRICA????? THIS HAS BEENTHIER MOTIVES AGENDAS FOR YEARS IF NTO FOR GADAFFI LIERALLY WHAT IVE JUST USED AN AN ANAALOGY WAS FACT WHEN FOR OVER A DECADE THEY CHRGES US TO GET SATTELITE SIGNALS FROM EUROEP WITHOUT ENABLING US TO HAVE ONE OFR OUR CONTINENT. WHAT WE ARE SEEING WITH THE WEST IS THIS COURT THEY NOW WANT TO USE TO CRIPPLE AFRICAS LEADERS??THEY HAVE THIS WOMAN WHO IS BEING USED AS SPIKE TO UNDERMINE THE AFRICAN UNION' CONTRARY TO WHAT SHE SAYS SHE CAN NOT AND WILL NOT BE ABNLE TO TRY WAR CRIMINALS FROM THESE HEGEMONIC POWERS SO THIS MAKES THIS COURT ILLEGAL.. WHT WE HAVE FROM THE USA IS THEIR ABILITY TO BRIBE AND CONTROL COURTS IF YOU LISTEN TO THE NARRATIVES COMMING FROM THE ICC REGARDING BRIBES ? IF THEY ARE PAYING YOUR SALARY YOU CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT TO TAKE THEM TO COURT DO YOU??? SO THE INCENTIVEWS FROM THE WEST ARE LARGER TO KEEP THEM OUT THE SPOTLIGHT THEY CONTROL AND PAY FOR THE COURTS!!!!!! THOSE ARE FACTS. WHENEVER A COURT IS UNBIASSED NTHERE ARE NO MONEY INCENTIVES IT IS TRULY NEUTRAL!!!! THAT IS A VERY EXPLANTORY WORD NEUTRAL!!! THERE IS NO BIAS FROM ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER WE DO NOT SEE THIS FROM EURPOPEANS THEY ALONGISED WITH THIER NATO ALLIES ALL FORMER ENSLAVERS IMPERIALIST TO DATE ARE PARTIALIST THEY TAKE SIDES OFETEN ALWAYS RECOGNISISNG PEOPLE WHO DISPITE CLEAR ARTICLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAWS CONCERNING SOVEREIGNTY'; VIOLATE THESE LAWS CONTINUALLY MAKING THEMSELVES SOME SORT OF PROXY POLICE FORCES THAT GIVES THEM IMPUNITY... THEY SIGHT EVERYONE FOR IMPUNITY WHILST THEY ARE THE MOST FLAGRANT ABUSERS OF IMPUNIY ON THE PLANET!!!!. THEY WANT TO BE ABLEW TO DOMINATE GOVERNMENTS PUTTING SELECTING WHOM THEY WISH TO BE LEADERS . WHAT THEN HAPPENS IS THEY HAVE THIER WYAS WITH CONTRACTS FOR WQEAPONS WHICH IS THIER BIGGEST SELERS THEN THEY WANT GAS AND OIL CONTRACTS WHER THE PERPRETATERS TYHAT DO DEALS ARE OFTEN USING OFF SHORE ACCOPUNTS SO THEY DO NOT PAY THE PROPER PROCEEDS FROM THIER SALES. THIS WHOLE IMPERIALIST AGENDA IS CRIMINAL SO IF AFRICA AND KENYA SHOULD NOT THINK THERE IS SOME REDEMTION IN BEING A SUCKER TO THE WEST !!!!. AS YOU SAID UP FRONT AN IMPERIALIST DOES NTO CHANGE OVER NIGHT THEY ARE INH TROUBLE UP TO THIER EYE BALLS EUROPE IS FALLING APART AT THE SEEMS THE USA IS DEEP IN DEBT THE MONEY THEY P[RINT IS WORTHLESS TO BE TRUE. WHAT THE US HAS IS INOVATIONS THEY HAVE MUCH IN THE WAY OF TECHNOLOGY AND IT DOES NOT GO PAST THAT. THE US HAS BEEN CAREFUL IN BRINGING N THE SMARTEST OF PEOPLE FROM ROUND THWE WQORLD GIVING THEM RICHES TO INVENT TEACH AND MANUFACTURE INDUSTRIALISE AND SO THEY WERE AT THE TOP BUT THE GRETATEST ASSET THEY EVER HAD WAS THE ENSLAVEMENT OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF AFRICANS WHO LABOURED FOR 500 YEARS?????? THEY HAVE NOT CHANGED WHEN IT COMES TO AFRICA; WHAT THEY SEE IN AFRICA TODAY SI WE4ALTH THAT BELONGS TO US AND WE NEED THE CAPAV CITIES TO REFINE EXTRACT MARKET PRICE OPUR OWN RAW MATERIALS SO WE CAN BE ON EQUAL TERMS WITH THESE IMPERIALIST. MAKE NO DOUBT , THEY WILL NEVER EVER GIVE US THE KEYS TO OUR RIGHTFULL PLACE ON THE EARTH AS LEADERS WITH TECHNOLOGIES ? SO NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE COMPLY(ICC) THEY USE THESE AS WAYS AND MEANS TO KEEP US DOWN!!!!!!!!! BUYILD A STRONG AFRICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHST AND JUSTICE.. WE CAN BUILD THESE INMSTITUTIONS WITH STRONG MORALS INTEGRITY AND JURISPRUDENCE"MCUH MORE SO THAN IN THE WEST WHERE THEY ARE ALL COMPROMISED THE MULKTI NATIONALS AND INDUSTRIALIST THE BANKERS FINACIERS PAY OFR THIER WAGE PACKETS THEY WILL NOT GO AGINST THEM... THESE INTERNATIONMLA LAWS THAT WE SEE COOMING FROM WESTERN SATTES THAT THEY PAY FOR ARE BEING USED TO WEAKEN NOT STERNGHTEN AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS. ONE THING YOU SHOULD KNOW IS THAT THIER IDEA OF AFRICA I NTO THE SAME ONE THAT YOU LIVE IN WITH THE ASPIRATIONS THAT ARE BEING SHARED" THIS FACT... THIER ONLY INTREST IS MONEY RTESOURCES WEALTH.. THIER LAWS MAKES IT EASIER FOR AFRICASN TO BE PLUNDERED WHEN WE MAKE OUR OWN LAWS WITH STRONG INSTITTUIONS THEN WE CAN CHALLENGE THIER CORRUPT WAYS. AGAIN MAKE NO MISTAKE HOW CAN THIEF TRY ANOTHER THIEF??? OR HOW VCAN A MURDERER ,RAPIST TORTURERE THSE ARE THE CRIMES THE WEST WHOSE COURTS YOU WANT TO ENJOY HAVE BEEN PARTICPASTING IN FOR CENTURIES; WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IS ASSUME THIS ROLE PLAY OF LEADERS OF DEMOCRACY WHICH WE NOW SEE IS A FRAUD??? THIER BEST FREINDS BEING ISRAEL A GENOCIDAL STATE SAUDI ARABAI AUTOCRTATICA STATE ,QATAR AND ALL THESE MANUFACTURED GULF STATES THAT THEY CRAETED.LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO LIBYA NO FUNCTIONAL STATE WITH MANY WAR LORDS AS HEADS OF GARRISON COMMUNITIES SHOULD GADAFFI BEEN SENT TO THE COURT WHICH WAS NEVER THIER INTENTIONAS THEY MURDERED HIM .. REMEMBER HOW THEY USED THE ICC TO SIOALET HIM AND EVENTUSALLY PUT HIM TO DEATH IN MOST HEINOUS WAY WE ARE LIVING IN WOLRD CREATED BY WHITES AND ITIS FOUL THE STENCH FO DETH PREMEATES THE AIR. WE HAVE A USA THT HAS CMMITTED THE WORST FO WAR CRIMES THE DSIBURSEMENT OF A NUCLEAR BOMB?????? CRIMINAL HEINOUS CRTIME, THE PEOPLE ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE RADIATIO!!! ARE WEW GOING TO JOIN A STRONG AFRICAN UNION' ONE THAT BALANCES OUR PSITION ON THE PLANET ONE THAT IS INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN AND FISCALLY SUATAINABLE. ARE WE GOING TO PUT IN PLACE A STRONG SOCIAL DEMOCRACY? ONE BRED OF REVOLUTIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR PEOPLE'. REMEMBER EVEN AFTER INDEPEDNENCE WE STILL SOUGHT TO DO THINGS IN A BRITISH WAY WHICH HAS NOT YEILDED MUCH FRUITS THE BIGGEST LOSER IS CORRUPTIOPN. IN HINDSIGHT IF WE TOOK A DIFFERNT PATH FAR FROM THE WEST A MORE AFRICAN SOPCAILIST PATH OF EQIALITY FAIRNESS EVERYONE IS WORTH THE SAME WE WOULD HAVE4 BEEN FAR IN ADVANCE AND WE WOULD NOT BE HAVING THIS ARGUMENT. WE NEED TO BUIDL COURTS WITH JUSTICES THAT ARE NOT INCLINED TO BE THER FOR MONETARY PURPOSES WHICH IS WHAT WE SEE IN THE W EST. SO ANYONE WHO IS COMPROMISED BY PAY IS COMPROMISED THERE IS NO TWO WAYS . WHOM SOEVER PAYS ONES WAGE PACKET IS WHOM YOU TAKE INSTRUCTIONS FROM. THE HAGUE THE ICC NEEDS REFROMATION WED NEED JUDGES THAST SERVES AS AHONOUR TO SERVE THE WORLD AND THERE IS NO PAT PACKETS EXCPET FROM THOSE THAT NEED BARRISTERS. OUR JUDGES EVEN IN AFRICA MUST HAVE YEARS OF EXCELLENEC AND WIZE JUDICIAL JURISPRUDENCE"" MUCH IN THE SAME LIGH TAS OUR ELDERS2