From: Samuel Omwenga

In my Star column this weekend Pursuing ICC Cases At The Hague Is Counter-Productive, I continue to make the case why the ICC cases should be terminated or at least brought back home.

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This is precisely where we are, namely, given the fast unraveling of the cases against the original Ocampo Six, given the unlikelihood of conviction for either Uhuru or Ruto going by the crumbling of these cases, given the prospect for finding a local solution, and especially given the need to maintain our dignity and stature as a sovereign state, it’s in the best interests for our country to either terminate or defer these cases to find a local solution.

Contrast with a scenario where the President ceases cooperating with the ICC and even has our country withdraw from the Rome Statute and we are made a pariah state as a consequence.

Those clamouring for this outcome hope it would be the undoing of the Uhuru presidency but they are mistaken.

Were Kenya to become a pariah state, it is not the President or his administration that would mostly suffer the consequences but ordinary Kenyans as well as foreign interests in the country neither of whom wish or would want to suffer such.

It’s for this reason it makes sense to either terminate these cases or defer them to allow a local solution for doing otherwise would in all likelihood result in far graver consequences for all.

Peace, Unity and Truth

Omwenga

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