ON MATTERS RELATING TO ICC

Joe Mwai

 by Joe Mwai
After the events that followed the hero's welcome of President Uhuru Kenyatta during Nelson Mandela's funeral in South Africa, I was chatting with my brother and told him that that was a very strong message to the Western world on the popularity of the Kenyan President in the African continent. I then went on to correctly predict that the message would be very clear to America's President, Barrack Obama.
Later on, I saw the invitation of Uhuru to Washington in June this year by Obama and predicted that this was a signal that Uhuru's case had collapsed, otherwise, if Obama was not so sure that Uhuru's case will not have been terminated at the Hague by then, He would not risk inviting him to Washington for the obvious backlash that would follow for associating with an ICC indictee.
This is so in that we saw Obama take a lot of pain to avoid his fatherland, during his state visit to Africa, last year, while holding the highest office in the world; a visit am sure he would have wanted to make while in this high office, even if not for anyone else but for his late father. As if to confirm this, we saw him promise that he would still make the visit to Kenya before he leaves office. His avoidance of association with Kenya at the moment was obviously in line with the standing of the free world on people implicated for genocide at the ICC. So what will have changed by June this year?
I do not see why the same person would make such a stupid move of inviting the same person, whom he avoided by not visiting Kenya during his Africa tour, to Washington if the case will still be on.
Although my opinion is that justice should be meted on those who were responsible for the atrocities committed in Kenya during the PEV in 2008, but we cannot fail to marvel at the shear unprofessional ism portrayed by the office of the prosecutor at the ICC in bringing those responsible to justice.
Neither can we fail to marvel at the glaring political interference by the Western countries to implicate some people for the sake of their own selfish interest in the country. Most of all the ICC will forever remain tainted by the revelations of bribery of most of the witnesses by the office of the prosecutor and the audacity of the court to ignore the outcry from the people of the world, who would otherwise rely on such a high court, to slay impunity in any part of the world, but who have otherwise chosen to keep quite on this important matter of corruption within the precincts of the court as if nothing happened.
Much will definitely be said, but one question will always linger in the minds of millions of the voiceless people, who will silently wonder through their thought forces on whether it was right for these superpowers to act in the manner they acted on matters relating to Kenya and the ICC, by showing so blatantly, disregard of the rule of law, as well as the independence of what is otherwise perceived to be the highest court of justice in the world.