kenyatta is teaching the African leaders a good lesson specialty Salva Kiir . Kenyatta to temporarily relinquish presidency for international Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta to step down from office to attend ICC ... Kenyatta to temporarily relinquish presidency for international criminal court hearing over charges relating to 2007 violence 13 comments Uhuru Kenyatta reviewing troops before addressing parliament in Nairobi, when he said he would go to Uhuru Kenyatta reviewing troops before addressing MPs, when he said he would go to the ICC over charges of crimes against humanity. Photo: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Associated Press in Nairobi Monday 6 October 2014 17.56 BST The Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, will temporarily step down as president while attending a hearing at the international criminal court this week, he said in a national address on Monday. Kenyatta faces charges of crimes against humanity at the ICC, which is based at The Hague, Netherlands, over allegations that he helped instigate violence that followed Kenya’s December 2007 presidential election, when more than 1,000 people were killed. Advertisement The court ordered him to attend a status hearing on Wednesday, denying his request that he participate by video. The hearing will be the first time a sitting president has attended an ICC session, a milestone Kenyatta’s political supporters have urged him to avoid. Seeking to bypass that notation in history, the president said on Monday that he would invoke a hitherto unused article of the constitution that will see the deputy president, William Ruto, temporarily become president. The short-term abdication is Kenyatta’s way of fulfilling the court order while insisting that he is attending the hearing as a private citizen. In his speech, Kenyatta maintained his innocence, noted that the ICC prosecutor had been admonished by the court for her faltering case and recalled that the African Union had passed a resolution granting immunity from international tribunals for sitting presidents.
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