Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Amsterdam on Tuesday ahead of a Status Conference that he is scheduled to attend the following day.
Kenyatta had left for the Status Conference on his case at the ICC criminal court at 8.30am on Tuesday aboard a KQ flight a day after he resigned from the Presidency for three days and appointing his Deputy, William Ruto as acting President.
Kenyatta arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport accompanied by his wife Margaret Kenyatta and their daughter Ngina. He did not have his regular security detail but had a few bodyguards according to sources within the travelling party. Kenyatta additionally used the regular VIP lounge and not the presidential lounge reserved for the president at the airport.
He was accompanied by several leaders including Nairobi senator Mike Sonko sporting a new hairdo that reads "Respect our Prezzo." Other leaders included CSs, MPs Jamleck Kamau, Moses Kuria, Naomi Shaban, Joseph Nkaissery and senator Charles Keter. Of note were Coast ODM MPs Gideon Mung’aro and Khatib Mwashetani who were also part of the waiting party at the airport. Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu also travelled with Kenyatta to The Hague.
The Brand Kenya Board was also represented at the airport as Kenyatta was seen off to The Hague. In a suprise Move Kenyatta on Monday invoked article 147(3) of the constitution appointing Deputy President William Ruto as acting President while he attends the ICC status conference at the Hague.
While addressing Parliament, Uhuru told shocked members that he will not put the sovereignty of Kenya into question by attending the Status Conference at The Hague as a sitting president. "Let it not be said that I am attending the status conference as the President of Kenya," Uhuru told a shocked parliament. He said "I chose not to put the sovereignty of more than 40 million Kenyans on trial since their democratic will should not be subject to another jurisdiction."
The Status Conference that began on Tuesday is to discuss an apparent deadlock between the ICC Prosecutor and the Kenyan government. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told ICC judges that the government had frustrated her case against Kenyatta by failing to
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