THE ICC PROCESS IS NOT A CIRCUS OF NITWITS.

In the aftermath of the naming of the six suspects, I was disgusted as I watched legislators pour vitriol at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor. Those who spoke were hysterical and demagogical ostensibly because the ICC`s list of suspects was at variance with their secret wish lists. Some even went forth to publicly demonstrate their intellectual dishonesty and incompetency by opining that the ICC ought to have included the names of the two principals on its list of suspects. They conveniently forgot that ICC is after criminal and not political responsibility relating to the 2007 PEV.

It must also not be forgotten that only a few days ago the same legislators waxed lyrical about Kenya disengaging from the ICC led retributive process because some unnamed ODM legislator was sighted having a quiet a tete a tete with the ICC prosecutor perhaps finalizing on the scheme to execute politically motivated indictments. Again, one can only conclude that this claim is not only wacky and utterly without basis but also a seduction of the most oppressive kind whose intention is clear as crystal. You do not need a law degree or a Ph.D. to see right through such wild allegations. All that these legislators want to do is to callously engender fear and animosity, appealing to people`s ethnic identities, fomenting disturbances and filling people`s ears with all sorts of inflammatory rhetoric.

It should be clear to these legislators that their antics will not make the ICC to retreat from the threshold of reasonable and meaningful investigations.
Much as I recognize and respect these legislators` constitutional right to freely express themselves, I am extremely worried that their outrageous claims are likely to sow confusion, or worse, further create a wedge in a multi-ethnic populace such as ours. The conduct of these legislators contravenes article 33 (2) of the Kenya constitution for which they should be placed under the bar of justice.

It must not be forgotten that some of these legislators were seen chest thumping that international justice would take eternity before they are indicted and presented before the International court to answer to charges of crimes against humanity. Now that the storm of justice has started swirling around them they are desperately trying to peddle cheap lies to save themselves from the ignominy of having shot themselves in the leg.

They are now opining that by submitting ourselves to the ICC we have allowed a foreign national to trample upon our sovereignty. What hogwash. When did sovereignty mean ducking out of giving hundreds of thousands of PEV victims the redress they deserve? Does “sovereignty” mean turning the victims’ quest for justice into a revolving array of musical chairs dependent on the political caprices of a rowdy few? Whatever tricks they employ justice will surely be delivered for in the words of Edgar Samuel Poe, “truth has a way of beating through the best-laid alibis.”