By Nation correspondent
Posted Tuesday, March 29 2011 at 22:00
Posted Tuesday, March 29 2011 at 22:00
A Cabinet minister and an assistant minister aligned to the PNU on Tuesday insisted that post-election violence suspects would not find justice at The Hague.
They accused Prime Minister Raila Odinga of betraying his country and playing to the gallery of foreign powers by supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial process.
Describing the ICC as a kangaroo political court, established by Western countries for Africans, Public Health and Sanitation minister Beth Mugo and Medical Services assistant minister Kambi Kazungu said justice could only be found on home ground, without the involvement of foreigners.
“The same foreigners who came and did a mistrial on Kenyatta’s case are the same ones at The Hague. They are not trust- worthy and they can not deliver justice,” Mrs Mugo said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The Public Health minister said only the establishment of a local mechanism to try post-election violence suspects would deliver justice to the six suspects.
False evidence
She argued that Kenyans had witnessed, through history, a case of conviction of suspects based on false evidence and said this was likely to repeat itself.
She argued that Kenyans had witnessed, through history, a case of conviction of suspects based on false evidence and said this was likely to repeat itself.
“Kenyans will recall that during the trial of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the colonialists bribed the late Rawson Macharia to give false evidence against him. The key witness was given 2,900 sterling pounds and offered a university course at Exeter University College as well as protection for his family,” she claimed.
The minister said it was worrying that the protection of witnesses of the ICC cases has been placed under foreigners.
Mr Kazungu claimed the ICC chief prosecutor, Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, had been advised by some key persons in Kenya not to mention “real perpetrators” of the violence.
“Some people have seen Mr Ocampo secretly and asked him not to mention the real people behind the violence,” the assistant minister said.
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