Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has expressed dissatisfaction with the latest opinion on the ICC by Synovate Group. The VP said the opinion polls had been ‘engineered’ to mislead Kenyans and keep the country suspicious.
On Tuesday Synovate released poll results showing that over 61 per cent of Kenyans support trials for the Ocampo Six be held at the Hague and that majority do not support the VP’s rounds of shuttle diplomacy. “We are giving a red card to these self-motivated pollsters who even contributed to the post-election violence. They talk to few people in a corner and come out to cheat us that the whole country has spoken,” a visibly angry Kalonzo said.
Kalonzo was speaking during the official opening of the Social Security House Parking silo in Nairobi yesterday. He proposed regulations to gag the pollsters.
In defence of his shuttle diplomacy that sought to defer the Hague cases, Kalonzo said they are pushing for the establishment of a local tribunal that will guarantee everyone justice. “We want justice for all the victims as well as have all the suspected perpetrators punished and in the next one or two years we will have special prosecutors appointed to tackle this. We can’t get away by glossing over this issue, by praying through opinion polls that others be taken away to the Hague,” he said.
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