Pressure mounts on ICC to drop president Uhuru’s trial

President Uhuru Kenyatta follows the proceedings during the ICC pre-trial hearings at The Hague in September 2011. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

Hague: Pressure continues to mount on the International Criminal Court to terminate President Uhuru Kenyatta’s case for lack of concrete evidence tying him to the 2007/08 post-election violence.

Late last year, the ICC issued a press statement stating the case against the President “did not satisfy the high evidential standards required at trial” and that the prosecution needed time to complete efforts to obtain additional evidence and consider whether such evidence will enable the prosecution meet the evidential threshold required.