Martha Karua.Photo/File
FORMER Justice minister Martha Karua has denied fixing Deputy President William Ruto at the International Criminal Court.
For the last two days, Karua has been tweeting multiple denials that she framed Ruto in the investigations into post election violence.
On Monday Ruto’s defence team in the Hague mentioned Karua, Interior principal secretary Mutea Iringo and State House advisor Nancy Gitau and others plotted to expose Ruto over poll chaos in 2008.
Karua said Ruto was responsible for his own actions. “Alijiset kwa vitendo’ (he set himself up by his actions),” Karua responded to a direct tweet on whether she fixed Ruto to the ICC.
Karua, a strong ally of former President Mwai Kibaki, was appointed the Justice minister in January 2008 at the height of the post election violence following the controversial December 2007 election.
She represented Kibaki’s PNU wing in the mediation talks chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. “You cannot wipe your guilt off me,” said Karua in one tweet.
Karua said those charged at the ICC should agree to the due process of the law.
“It is an indisputable fact that over a thousand people were murdered, thousands displaced and others maimed/injured, let the accused answer,” she said on Twitter.
Ruto is charged with journalist Joshua Sang and are both presently on trial in the Hague. Karua said the ICC should decide whether the wrong people are facing charges at the Hague.
She said those who believe she should be at the Hague are “thinking wrongly.” “Hurry up,” she told those saying they will call the ICC prosecutor to come for her.
She said those asking her if Kibaki stole the 2007 elections, should ask the former president.
In another tweet, Karua stated that “the blood of Abel followed Cain,” in reference to the bible when Cain killed his younger brother Abel while in the field.
As Justice minister Karua pushed hard for full implementation of the Waki report and the establishment of a local tribunal.
“Change must come and nobody will be spared, nobody should expect to remain in their comfort zones, it is time for reforms and all institutions must give way,” said Karua on January 27, 2009 when she formally introduced the Waki report in Parliament.
Her bill seeking to establish a local tribunal was defeated a few weeks later on the floor of the House.
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