Carry your own cross, Uhuru Kenyatta told

Machakos Senator Johnstone Muthama
has said the country should not be
dragged into the cases

Machakos Senator Johnstone
Muthama has said the country should
not be dragged into the cases facing
the President and his deputy, saying,
the two should pursue the cases as
individuals.
Mr Muthama said the country needed
to remain in the Rome Statute,
arguing, the International Criminal
Court (ICC) prevented a repeat of
violence during elections in March
because leaders and Kenyans feared
being pursued by the court.
“Let President Kenyatta and Deputy
President William Ruto pursue their
cases at the Hague, but the country
should not be dragged into the matter
with calls to pull out of the Rome
Statute,” he said.
On arguments that the country had
turned a new leaf and people had
chosen to be peaceful, Mr Muthama
said it was only because of the ICC
threat that politicians feared to
instigate violence in March.
The Machakos Senator said the
African leaders who are pushing,
through the African Union (AU), for
withdrawal from the Rome Statute
were insincere. Most were behind
human rights abuses in their own
countries, and the ICC was created to
protect people against abusive
leaders, he added.
Mr Muthama was speaking during a
church fund-raiser at the African
Brotherhood Church in Nairobi.
President Kenyatta, his Deputy
William Ruto and former radio
broadcaster Joshua Sang are facing
charges of crimes against humanity
during the 2008 post-election
violence.
Mr Ruto’s and Mr Sang’s case is
ongoing in The Hague.
Mr Muthama also criticised Police
Inspector-General David Kimaiyo for
investigating journalists over their
coverage of the Westgate shopping
mall terrorist attack.
Daily nation

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