Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has ganged up with President Robert Mugabe in an effort to weaken and disable the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction over Kenyan crimes against humanity.
This follows the long trial of both Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto for their alleged roles in the mass murder of hundreds of Kenyans during that nation’s 2007 elections.
While Kenyatta’s case was later dropped, Ruto’s was left hanging and yesterday Uhuru sent his special envoy, Dr Fredy Mithangi, who is also that country’s Minister of Information Communication Technology, to deliver a special message to Mugabe to drum up support for Kenya’s stance on the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s Ruto case, which is pending at the Hague.
Mithangi delivered the message to Acting President Phelekezela Mphoko who will hand it to President Mugabe when he returns from Egypt.
The message also urged African governments to help Kenya in its quest to reject the interference by the ICC in the governance of issues on Africa.
Mugabe is on record attacking the CC as a Western project that targets African leaders in its prosecutions, claims which history however reflects the contrary since non-African leaders have also been tried there.