SO ICC EXPECTS PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA TO BE THERE ON NOVEMBER 12th? THEY MUST BE DREAMING; -When the ICC brashly declared that it would teach Kenya a lesson, it set off a series of events that have given it a severe case of food poisoning. -For the ICC, it was an open and shut case. After all, it was just indicting more Africans over whom its masters had given it carte blanche… -The ICC now stands on the edge of a precipice. It is now generally accepted that the Kenya cases were poorly investigated, and NGOs were used to procure evidence and witnesses. -The results have been disastrous…The cases were then rushed to court to block UHURU and RUTO from contesting the Presidency. -These two were seen by the West and its agents as being the biggest obstacles to their preferred presidential candidate, RAILA ODINGA. -Unfortunately,that plot unraveled spectacularly…It’s now obvious that the Kenyan cases were never about the victims, despite self righteous exhortations to the contrary. -Otherwise the same passion for justice would be apparent in Syria, where 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced by a civil war attended by horrendous atrocities by both sides… -The global interest in the Kenyan cases is unprecedented. -It is a red hot issue internationally, drawing almost daily coverage and analysis on major global media like New York Times, BBC, The Telegraph among others. -In Kenya, it has dominated all media platforms… -For the second time in as many months, the British Parliament has debated the Kenyan cases at the ICC in special sessions, and those MPs have severely criticised that court over its standards and focus on Africans… -Further, the Kenyan cases have unified the African Union (AU) like never before. -Two extraordinary sessions have been held this year to full houses; where unanimous resolutions on the Kenyan cases have been reached, save for that sellout Botswana… -Clearly, it is not going to be business as usual however much the ICC and its apologists would like to continue burying their head under the sand… ·-If the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) would like to test the extent of the AU’s demand for respect by ICC for Africa and its leaders, then that moment has arrived. -I doubt that the UNSC and the ICC want to reach that bridge… -The conduct of the ICC’s prosecutors has been criticised again and again, even by their own judges. -Inexplicably, the prosecutor continues operating with complete impunity, trampling all over the rights of the accused persons, and able to twirl judges around her little finger to acquiesce to even her most unreasonable of demands. -The conviction of Congolese “warlord”, Thomas Lubanga, set a new low in judicial standards… -Further, if the standards of evidence so far on display in the Kenyan cases are anything to go by, God help the ICC. -Indeed, Bensouda has sought to deflect attention from the absolutely chaotic start to her cases by engaging in sideshows… -The latest is the arrest warrant secretly issued against her former hireling, journalist Walter Barasa, an indication of the prosecutor’s increasing desperation… -And now the elephant in the room – will President Kenyatta honour his date with the ICC? -This vexing question is what the whole world is now seized of. Anxious Western countries dispatched the 15 members of the UNSC to Addis Ababa to meet the AU before the extraordinary summit on the Kenyan cases this month… -All we can ask President Uhuru is to make a decision in the best interests of Kenya – sovereignty, personal pride, AU, and all other considerations notwithstanding. -He himself knows very well what’s at stake, and how high those stakes are… -As for the ICC, there is a storm brewing around you. The support you thought you had has been exposed for what it is – a fig you have been using to hide your nakedness… -That nakedness has now been exposed by the Kenyan cases. -What is clear is that the ICC cannot continue down the same road of being a “farcical pantomime” as President Uhuru so aptly described it. Something must give… -The ICC must, therefore, change forever, or be broken by the very forces it has unleashed over which nobody no longer has any control!”
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:06:37 +0000
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