Kenya: Did Hague Witness Retract His Testimony?
The criminal investigations department is seeking to have the identity of an alleged International Criminal Court witness who was filmed retracting evidence verified.
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Kenya: ICC Rejects Uhuru, Muthaura Plea
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- KENYA Citizen TV
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- 8 May 2012
The international criminal court's appeals chamber has rejected an appeal lodged by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former head of public ... see more »
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Despite a blow to their bid to have the Ocampo Four tried at the East African Court of Justice, government is still adamant in their quest to have the four tried locally. Read more »
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From Njagi Maina 23 May 2012: "Kenya's CID: "Before we continue with our investigations we wish to have it confirmed that James Kabutu Maina is a witness""
"Before"? The CID carries out investigations against Kenyans who may be suspected of wrongdoing or being a threat to the national security. If the individual is a suspect then why does the CID need the go-ahead from the ICC? Does being a "witness" trigger an investigation for wrongdoing or security risk? On whose behalf does the CID want to carry out the investigations - the ICC? Uhuru, who is one of the accused at the ICC, has publicly threatened retaliation on whoever in Central Province is not in his corner. The name of a good Kenyan has been put out there - true or not - for possible retaliation against him and family. Does Kenya's CID and its AG know why "witness protection" is at times necessary? They know - but, time and time again, tribal allegiance in Kibaki's tribal appointees seem to blatantly override in them any trace of professionalism and allegiance to the larger Kenya.
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In naddition to Kenya government's CID, who else wants the identification of witnesses? Is the governments CID working for the "Ocampo Four" who are to stand trial at the ICC for heinous crimes against humanity?
Njagi Maina 23 May 2012: A significant related news item: "Ocampo Four want ICC witnesses revealed" - Standard, May 22, 2012"
"WELL,!!! MY BELOVED BROTHERS, WE CAN SEE THE IMPERIAL COLOINAILIST STANCE.ONE THAT IS BEING TAKEN BY THIS BODY OF WITCH HUNTERS WHOM WRE OBLIGATED AND GUIDED BY THEIR SOLE WISH OF DISARMING "RICAN UNITY". THEIR ATTITUDE IS VERY AUTHORITARIAN THEY SPEAK AS IF THEY ARE AN ELECED BODY OF KENYANS WHO HAVE THE RIGHT AND JUDRISDICTION TO TRY THESE CASES. SHOULD WE EMPOWER THESE PEOPLE THERE WILLL NEVER BE A RETURN TO SOVEREIGNTY. WHOM SO EVER INITIATED THIS ROME STAUTE RULE FOR US AS AFRICANS TO BE TRIED LIKE SLAVES OF EUORPE IN EUROPEAN COURTS DID NOT FORSEE A STRONG VIBRANT INDEPENDENT CONTINENT FREE OF IMPERIAL DOMINATION . THIS PERSON WAS NOT A VISIONARY WHICH IS WHAT WE ARE CALLING FOR TODAY NOT THOSE WHOM ARE SUBJUGATED BY MENTAL CHAINS .THIS WAS A SAD DAY IN AFRICAN HISTORY. AS WE SEE THRUOUT THE CONTINENT ALL STATES HAVE REJECTED THESE STATUTES. ALL HAVE ELECTED TO TRY ON THE CONTINENT. EAST AFRICA HAS MADE A VERY BROAD INTITIATIVE TO DEMOCRATISE A CONSIDERABLE AREA IN AFRICA BRINGINGH IT UNDER A VERY STRINGENT EMOCRATISATION . FOR THEM TO BE SO RUDE AND OBJECTIVE SHOWS THAT THEIR WISH IS NOT FOR THE BEST OF AFRICA IT IS THEIR DESIRE TO KEEP AFRICA UNDR ITS BOOT HEELS WE MUST REJECT THAT AS IF THEY SLAPPED US IN THE FACE. THEY CAN NOT FORCE OVER ONE BILLION PEOPLE TO BECOEM SLAVES THIS IS WHAT THEY WOULD LOVE AS WE LOOK AT OUR YOUTHS HOW QUICK THEY ARE TO MEBRACE EDUCATION THY ARE NOT LAZY THEY WANT A FUTURE WHICH IS FREE AND BRIGHT AND IF WE HAVE SYSTEMS THAT SHOW THEM THE RIGHT WAY THE RIGHT PATH THEY WILL BENIFIT IN THE FUTURE . WHAT IS THAT WHICHYOU HAVE PROPOSED IS VERY INTUTIVE VERY AMBITOUS VERY DEMOCRATIC VERY SINCERE VERY INDEPENDENT"". MAKING THIS VERY INSTRUMERNTAL IN ENVELOPING A TRUE"AFRICAN UNION COURT OF JUSTICE "WHICH WOULD BE A COURT OF FINALITY AND WOULD BE THE OVERSEER OF ALL THE REGIONAL BODIES. WHAT THEY HAVE APROBLEM WITH IS AFRICA FREEING ITSLEF OF THEIR DOMINATION. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PRACTISE OUR OWN LAWS WRITTEN AND DELEGATED BY AFRICANS FOR AFRICANS. CONTINUE TO SEEK THIS MONU8MENTAL STAGE IN AFRICAN POLITICS . THIS SHOULD BE INTIATED STRAIGHT AWAY. WE THEN COULD BRING WHOM WE CHOOSE AND TO BOOK SO WE CAN MANTAIN A STRONG UNION OF "BROTHER AND SISTERHOOD". SHOULD YOU ALLOW THIS COWBOY COURT TO INSTALL THEIR FORM OF AFRICAN JUSTICE TAKING US BACK TO A TIME WHERE WE DO NOT WANT TO GO. THE AFRICAN CONTINENT IS MOVING FORWARD NOT BACKWARD. SHOULD WE BE BAMBOOZLED INTO SUBVERSIVE MEASURES ? !! TAKING AWAY OUR SOVEREIGNTY?, THEN ALL WOULD BE IN VAIN. WE ARE SEEING A TREND WHERE AFRICANS HAVE TO PROVE THEMSELVES TO WORLD BODIES WE ARE UNDER SCRUTINY AS THOUGH WE ARE CHILDREN. WE LOOK AT WESTERN NATIONS WHOM ARE PUSHING THIS AFRICAN AGENDA THEY ARE ALL FORMER COLINIALIST THEY FORGET THAT COLONIALISM WAS NOT IN ANY WAY DEMOCRAITC NOR WAS IT HUMANE . THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE SURPASSED THEIR DOMINATION OVER OUR CONTINENT AND WE ARE MAKING INSTITUTIONS THAT WILL BE BALANCED, FAIR, HUMANE, JUST, EQUAL FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA. THIS COURT IN EAST AFRICA HAS TO BE PUSHED AHEAD OF TIME AND IT MUST SHOW THE GURT AND BODY THAT IS AFRICAN WE MUST ALLAY TO THE WORLD THAT WE ARE STRONG CAPABLE INDEPENDENT READY TO OVERTAKE THE REIGNS OF POWER ON THIS CONTINENT. SHOULD WE LOSE TO THEIR IRREVERANCE AND ILLEGALITIES THEY DO NOT HAVE JURISDICTIONIN AFRICA. THEY HAVE NOMRIGHTS IN AFRICA. THEY WOULD LIKE TO BELIVE THEY KNOW MORE THAN WE DO BUT THEY DONT PRACTISE DEMOCARCY IN MOST OF THEIR STATES AND THEY FOR SURE HAVE MORE DICTATOIRAL FREINDS THAN DEMOCRATIC. AFRICA ISSTEEPED IN DEMOCRACY BASED ON VERY DEEP CULTURAL ENTRENCHMENTS . TODAY IN NORTH AFRICA AND MOST OF WEST AND SOME OF EAST AFRICA THE PEOPLE ARE DEVOUT MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS WHOM ARE PEOPLE OF THE BOOKS. THEY ARE GUIDED BY THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" THEY HOLD CERTAIN PRINCIPLES CLOSE TO THEIR HEARTS. WHAT WE SEE IN THE WEST IS THIS BACK SLIDING OF WHAT WE BELIEVE TO BE "TRUTH AND RIGHTS". FROM DEEP STUDIES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WE FIND THAT AFRICA HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS. WE FIND THAT THE WEST WANTS US TO EMBRACE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES THAT ARE CONTRARY TO ANYTHING WE BELIEVE AND EMBRACE. THEY ARE TRYING TO CREATE A A CLIMATE OF SAME SEX RELATIONSHIPS AS WE SEE THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT BACKSLIDING DOWN A DANGEROUS PATH. THOSE WHO WANT TO EMBRACE THIS LUST AND INAAPPRROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR MUST RECOGNISE THAT THRUOUT THE MANY YEARS OF ALL THE PROPHETS WHO HAVE ROAMED THE EARTH NONE HAS EVER CONDONED ANY OF THESE ACTIONS. WHAT WE MUST ALSO KNOW IS THAT AFRICA HAS THE ELDEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET WE HAVE THE MOST ANCIENT OF NATIONS WE ARE THE FIRST PEOPLE EVER "" ...!!! >>>>THOSE WHO BROUGHT US THESE RIGHTEOUSS WORDS WERE THE CONTINENTS ENLIGHETNED BELIEVERS OF "ONE SOVERIEGN INDIVSISBLE ALL MIGHTY GOD". THERE HAS BEEN SODOMY ON THIS CONTINENT AND WHAT WE KNOW OF IT; IS THAT IT WAS WIPED OFF THE MAP INTO COSMIC DUST. THIS WAS HOW WRETCHED IT WAS VIEWED. ." WE KNOW THAT AFRICA WAS THE CONTINENT THAT BROUGHT FORTH MONOTHEISM" WHICH IS THE WORSHIP OF ONE GOD. WE PRACTICED THESE PRINCIPLES WHEN THE COLONIALIST CAME INTO AFRICA. WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW IS THEM TRYING TO MAKE US THEIR CARBON COBIES AND REMAIN SUBSERVIENT TO THEIR WISHES.'WHAT WE SAY TO THIS IS THAT WE ARE CAPABLE AND WE HAVE A SET DESIGN TO BRING "AFRICAN JUSTICE "TO AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE WILL SHARE OUR IDEALS WITH ALL OUR DIFFERNT CULTURES BUT WE WILL DEVOTE OURSELVES TO RIGHTEOUSNESS WHERE NOBILITY AND HONOUR BEING THE WAY FORWARD. 'EAST AFRICA IS BECOMING STRONG ECONOMICALY AND SHOULD YOU VOID YOUR OW LEGISLATIONS SHOULD YOU LEGISLATE YOUR JUDICIARY TO EUROPE THEN WHENEVER YOU MAKE LAWS THAT WILL BE BENIFICIAL TO EAST AFRICA AND ITS COMMERCE YOU WILL BE DENIED THE STRENGTH AND POWER TO PROSECUTE OIL COMPANIES FROM EUROPE THEY WILL SIGHT THAT YOU DONT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TRY THEM. YOU WILL BE SLIPPING DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE. AFRICA NEEEDS TO STAND FIRM AND WITHOUT HESIATTION WITHOUT LOOKING BACK NTO THE PAST CUTTING THE STRINGS THAT THEY WANT TO KEEP AROUND YOUR NECK WE NEED TO LET THEM GO. LET THEM TRY EUROPEAN BANKERS FOR RIPPING OFF WORLD ECONOMIES LET THEM TRY COLONIAL POWERS FOR EXPLOITATION. LET THEM TRY THOSE WHO ARE STILL EXPLOTING AND DESTROYING AFRICAS ENVIRONMENT WE MSUT ALLOW THEM TO FIRST TAKE THE STY OUT THEIR EYE BEFORE THEY CAN ATKE HE STY FROM OURS. DO NOT BECOEM A CLOWN FOR THESE PEOLE. LOK AT LIBYA THEY DO NOT HAVE AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT AND THEY WONT ALLOW FOR THEIR PEOPLE TO GO TO EUROPE TO BE TRIED WE MUST BE FIRM AND INDEPENDENT. OUR AIMS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN CONTINENT WILL BE DASHED IF THESE TRIALS PROCEED."MAY ALL MIGHTY GOD2 GUIDE YOU WITH HIS MIGHTY HAND" THERE IS NONE STRONGER THAN HE. ALL HIS PRECEPTS AND PRINCIPLES ARE RIGHT" HE" HAS GIVEN STRENGTH TO YOUR CRIES "HE" IS KNOWER AN SEER"OF ALL THINGS . THIS IS HIS WORLD NOT THE WORLD OF THE SUPER POWERS OR THE BIG GUNS THIS IS A WORLD FAR BEYOND THEIR CREATION AND "WE MUST BE HUMBLE IN "THE ALL MIGHTIES " SIGHT AND ONLY GTANTING "THE ALLMIGHTY GOD ALL THE GLORY" "HE" ALONE IS OUR BEDROCK FROM WHICH WE HAVE NO FEAR" WE WILL PUT ORU TRUST IN HIM AND ALLOW HIM TO DEFND US WITH HIS MIGHTY HANDS WE WONT PURSUE ARMS RACES WE WONT PURSUE OTHER DISTRACTIONS THAT IS NOT BEAUTIFUL NOR WORHTY IN HIS SIGHT" OUR LOYALTY IS TO RECOGNISE THESE AMBITIONS WITH ALL OUR BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE ARE ARE FIRST THE "ALMIGHTY GOD" FOREMOST AN WE THEN ADMINISTRATE THESE PRINCIPLES THRUOUT THE LAND. AS WE EMULATE THE RIGHETOUSS PRINCIPLES THAT IS BESTOWED UPON US FROM "OUR LORD". WE KNOW THAT BEING CLEAN OF HEART AND SURE FOOTED THAT WE ARE ABLE TO WITH THE PEOPLE PRACTISE OUR NOBLE BEGINNINGS OUR NOBLE CULTURES TO BE EQUAL AND JUST IN ALL OUR DECISIONS. EQUITY IS WHAT WE WAIM FOR WE WANT A CODE OF PRACTISE THAT IS BEING INFLUINCED BY THOSE WHO WWERE NEVER IMPARTILA BUT UNJUST MONSTTRUOS AND TYRANNICAL. WE ARE EMBRACING A LANGUAGE WHERE WE MEE THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA COME TOGETHER AND CONSTRUCT SOMEPRUDENT AND HONEST AND LAWS FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND ONE THAT IS NOT AMBIGUOUS OR DIFFICULT TO COMPREHEND . WE WANT THE LAWS TO BE EQUITABLE TO EVERY ONE; WE WANT A CONTINENT THAT HAS BASICALLY THE SAME LAWS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED DIFFERNTLY IN EVERY OTHER MEMBER STATE . AFRICA IS ON A VERY STRONG COURSE OF DEMOCARCY THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS NOT TOTALLY ALIEN TO AFRICA . THESE THINGS WERE ABOLISHED DURNG COLONIALISM WE HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE NOT CONTRIBUTED ANYTHING TO EARTH BUT WE KNOW THESE ARE LIES. AFRICA DID NOT HAVE A CULTURE OF THIEVES AND MURDERERS RAPIST OR KIDNAPPERS WE WERE NOT PAERFECT BUT WE DID NOT HAVE PRISON SYSTEM AS IT WAS MORE DIFFICULT TO TAKE FROM YOUR OWN . THIS WAS WHY AFRICA WAS DIFFERNT WE WONT ADDR4ESS THESE FALACIES THE WEST PRODUCED BUT WE ARE CAPABLE IN THIS 21ST CENTURY TO LOOK AFTER OUR OWN JSUTICE SYSTEM" ONE THAT IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THE PEOPLE SAFE SECURE AND ELLIMINATE TYRANY DICTAORSHIP AND THE FIRST THING IS TO DENY THE ICC OF ITS DICTATORIAL DESIGNS ON KENYA"!!!!!!!!!!!.