MUTULA MUST CEASE MAKING SUCH DANGEROUS ABROGATION REMARKS.

On a number of occasions honorable Mutula Kilonzo, the Minister for Justice and constitutional Affairs has unleashed coded verbiage that has increasingly pointed to intent at a backpedalling on the people`s quest for justice over the 2007 post election violence (PEV). In my opinion, these outrageous remarks are a testament of a minister being destroyed by the pressures of a cabal pushing him to a false bravado.

Uncharacteristic of a lawyer of his reputation, the minister has hopped from one position to the other in quick succession and in the end failed to convince even himself to adopt any position with regard to PEV. Like a pendulum he appears to be on the extreme end of those vouching for justice for the PEV victims while at another time he adopts a blinkered attitude of the victims and belligerently arrogates himself the power to spew ridiculous jiggery-pokery in an obvious attempt at defenestrating justice and pampering of impunity. Call it ad hominem par excellence if you like.

While we laud the optimism he has in the new constitution, it will be prudent of him to appreciate the fact that even with the promulgation of the new constitution there are forces within the same government that are keen on standing on the way of its implementation. It will therefore take several years before the citizenry have sufficient levels of confidence in the Kenyan judiciary. During this time we cannot deep freeze the quest for justice over the 2007 PEV. That will be tantamount to forcing Kenyans to behave like the proverbial ostrich. Certainly, Kenyans will not at any one time imagine that the 2007 PEV was just but a bad dream.

Mutula must know that the spectre of unresolved killings is haunting Kenya and the sooner we deal with it, fairly and squarely, the better for us. He must also know that the 2007 PEV was like the tip of an ice berg. Beneath the deceptively calm peace lies the threat of anarchy, bloodletting and degeneration of the state.

My exhortation to Mutula is to respect the Rome Statute that we voluntarily signed as a country. He must immediately cease engaging in any abrogation talk. In any case, his talk about Hague being unable to handle so many witnesses of the PEV is simplistic, mischievous and obviously misleading and so is his previous assertion that the Kenyan case does not meet the ICC threshold of crimes against humanity.

Moreover, it will be in our best interest as a country if Mutula does not allow the 2012 political machinations to override the national interest. He must respect parliament which in its collective wisdom declared “let us not be vague, let us go to Hague.”

TOME FRANCIS,
BUMULA CONSTITUENCY.
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