East Africa: Regional Parliament's ICC Plea Opposed

Publisher:
KENYA Citizen TV
Publication Date:
2 May 2012
Tags:
East Africa, Legal and Judicial Affairs, International Organizations and Africa

KENYA'S PEV CASES: Experts:EACJ has no jurisdiction. EALA's Arusha hearing bid opposed.
The fresh bid fronted through the East Africa Legislative Assembly for the Kenyan cases at the International Criminal Court to be transferred to the East African Court of Justice continues to elicit opposition. Veteran politician Joseph Kamotho and renowned lawyer Gibson Kamau Kuria have dismissed the move as unfeasible, arguing that the regional court did not have such a mandate. Kuria says that under the treaty that set up the East African Court of Justice, its legal mandate is limited to interpreting the East African Community treaty and that the EAC was not a state and cannot therefore try crimes against humanity as stipulated under the Rome Statute. Abdi Osman has more.

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