Educationist appeals to ICC

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:01 BY NZAU MUSAU

A Kenyan whose request to be granted an amicus curiae status at the ICC dismissed last week is now appealing to the court to hear her again.
Moraa Gesicho, an educationist who wants to be granted the “friend of a court” status and thus be allowed to provide help in determining the case says the court ought to listen to her side because she believes she has serious issues which could impact heavily on the case. Moraa who has be opposed to the use of both Waki Commission report and the Kenya National Commission on Human Right’s post-election violence report in the ICC investigations seeks to demonstrate that the basis for starting the investigations was wrong.“What I want to tell them will be useful. It will help them determine the case and the sooner they grant me this status the better,” Moraa told the Star yesterday.
Her thrust of opposing the investigations is that the prosecutor did not start investigations on his own accord as provided for by the Rome Statute rather he was invited by Waki’s Commission through alleged arm twisting tactics by former mediator Kofi Annan.
She seeks to demonstrate to the court that the reports from the two commissions were faulty and could not therefore form a basis for starting investigations in Kenya.