Uhuru seeks bicameral house consent

 

The Jubilee government is now not shying away from pushing for the country to pull out of the Rome Statute as it had a year ago when Deputy President William Ruto’s cases at the ICC were still ongoing.
President Uhuru Kenyatta made a formal request yesterday on Tuesday, April 19 to the bicameral house to ‘suspend any links, cooperation and assistance linked with the court but in a respectful manner.

“Parliament is urged to take such necessary measures to ensure actualization of this resolution but to do so in a manner that respects our constitutional order,” said Uhuru as quoted in the Standard.

Two days ago, President Uhuru had sworn that no Kenyan would go to the ICC as he also worked to effect a mass pull out of African countries from the Rome Statute

Leader of Majority Aden Duale said that the house was only waiting on the African union committee working on a mass pull out of African countries from the Rome Statute for Kenya to implement its own comprehensive strategy of pulling out of the ICC.
Last week, the international criminal court had warned Kenya of consequences should the country fail to produce the three suspects accused of witness tampering and led to the collapse of the Kenyan cases.

“In case of non-cooperation, the legal procedure before the ICC is for the Judges to make a finding of non-compliance and to refer it to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute for the Assembly to take any measure it deems appropriate,” said Fadi El Abdallah, the ICC spokesman as quoted in the Star on Tuesday, April 19.