Kenyatta forced Ruto to attend the trials

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A visibly shaken and terrified Vice President Ruto has for the first time spoken and revealed how Kenyatta forced him to attend the trials at the ICC even though in his heart he wanted to skip the trials. Various behind the scenes wiggling had come up with the consensus that both Ruto and Kenyatta should not attend the trials. But Kenyatta later on prevailed upon Ruto to attend the trials.

Emerging reports confirm that Uganda and Rwanda asked Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta to stop his deputy William Ruto from flying to The Hague as his trial on charges of crimes against humanity kicked off last week.

Following his appearance at the ICC trials at the Hague, Ruto has come out strongly and condemned the manner in which Kenyatta betrayed him.

Speaking to members of his family and close friends, Ruto has lamented the fact that Kenyatta forced him to go to the Hague despite many African leaders urging the duo to boycott the trials.

“This man wanted to sacrifice me. But I took my chances and they have paid off” Ruto said. “He really thought I would be detained and was using me as a testing ground. But God is great. Ya Mungu ni makubwa.”

“By His Lord’s stripes I am going back home.” a determined but visibly shaken Ruto added. “Kusema ukweli, we should both have refused to come. But he wouldn’t hear of it.”

“Kikuyus!!” Mr. Ruto whispered to a Baringo MP… “I fear them.”

The request to skip the trials was tabled when President Kenyatta met Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa and Rwanda’s Louise Mushikiwabo in Nairobi on September 8, two days before Mr Ruto flew out to the International Criminal Court.

President Kenyatta insisted on his deputy attending court, arguing that failure to appear before the ICC could trigger a warrant of arrest and “the argument of whether they are innocent would be lost.”

The request was part of the behind-the-scenes efforts by the African Union to stop the prosecution of President Kenyatta and his deputy on charges of crimes against humanity at the ICC in The Hague.

Mr Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang entered a “not guilty” plea to charges of murder, deportation or forcible transfer of population and persecution over the 2007/8 post-election violence that left 1,133 people dead and displaced 650,000 others.

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