ICC: Potential End to Kikuyu-Kalenjin Marriage as Ruto Having Sleepless Nights Due to Kenyatta’s Cowardly Character Posted by: admin on October 13, 2013 Editors Choice, ICC Trials 1 comment th If the deadline passes without Baraza ending up confined at ICC Headquarters, Ruto will be detained at The Hague. If the government decides not to hand over Baraza and Ruto gets a breathing space to return to Kenya before the expiry of Baraza’s handing-over deadline, Ruto will not be able to return to The Hague without risking detention on grounds that Kenya is not cooperating with the ICC. From the point of view of strategy, voting by the Jubilee M-pigs for Kenya to quit the ICC at a time when the Ruto case had just began was ill-informed. This is because the move created undue suspicion between Kenya and the ICC. This suspicion has negated any gestures by Ruto that he is cooperating with the ICC and if Baraza is not handed over, it is difficult to envisage how Ruto will evade detention at the ICC on grounds that the ICC can no longer trust the Kenyan government. Despite the Attorney General, Githu Muigai’s chest-thumping to the effect that Baraza’s case will have to go through a Judicial Review, any failure to hand over Baraza to the ICC will put Ruto at great risk while casting Uhuru Kenyatta in absolute limbo. The scenario that might follow is almost predictable. If Baraza is not handed over when Ruto is in Kenya, the DP will not return to The Hague and an arrest warrant will be issued for him too. Consequently, Uhuru will not travel to The Hague. Once the President absconds from justice, the ICC will issue an arrest warrant for him and this will complicate Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency because he will not be able to travel anywhere outside Kenya without risking arrest. He will be like the Sudanese President Al Bashir who rarely leaves his country. For the Jubilee government to continue buying time with the ICC as the Ruto case roles, the government will have to sacrifice Baraza and hand him over. Within the corridors of power, Baraza is a nobody and sacrificing him shouldn’t be a big headache for the Mount Kenya Mafia especially if the reason is to buy time for Ruto to continue posing as though he is cooperating with the ICC. Unfortunately, handing over Baraza to the ICC will generate a much more bigger problem that the Jubilee government will be unable to deal with. If ICC has evidence that Baraza has been bribing witnesses, then the logical conclusion is that Baraza has been helping both Ruto and Uhuru to evade justice. What is known is that it is practically impossible for any Kenyan to engage in the complicated and sensitive business of bribing or intimidating ICC witnesses without help from the government. The big problem which will be created for both Uhuru and Ruto once Baraza is handed over is that Baraza will interpret his handover to mean that he has been sold by the very people he has been trying to help. The psychological effect on Baraza is that he will undergo a complete metamorphosis – from an anti-ICC activist to an ICC witness on the thorny issue of witness tampering. With his inside scoop on the intricacies of witness intimidation, bribery and harassment, Baraza will open a Pandora’s box and no one will be able to predict the number of big-wigs who will be implicated by the emergent “Barazagate scandal”. This is the ultimate nightmare scenario for Uhuru, Ruto and key operatives within the Intelligence community that has obviously been abetting Baraza. While spilling the beans at the ICC, Baraza may go deeper and further implicate the spy Chief, Gichangi together with top government apparatchiks who assisted him in his mission thereby opening the flood-gates of arrest warrants from the ICC of top conspirators who might be named by Baraza. Although sacrificing the little known Baraza on a short term may sound inconsequential, the Baraza monster may come back to haunt top personalities in government in very unpredictable ways. This explains why the country’s Attorney General had to introduce a stop-gap mechanism which he called “Judicial Review” of Baraza’s case as the government contemplated key implications. Judging from the dirty government record, Baraza may have to be killed one way or another because his presence at the ICC as a prisoner awaiting charges (with nothing more to lose) might bring down the Jubilee government, see Ruto locked at The Hague and leave Uhuru Kenyatta jostling with an ICC arrest warrant. Adapted from Kenya Stockholm Blog whereiskenya/icc-ruto-having-sleepless-nights-due-to-kenyattas-cowardly-character/
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