MP Moses Kuria tables 'evidence to prove Raila fixed Ruto at ICC'

NAIROBI: Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria made public an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) petition that opposed suspension of Kenyan cases at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Kuria Tuesday referred to the letter written to the United Nations Security Council in March 2011, authored by the then ODM Secretary General Anyang' Nyong'o (now Kisumu Senator) requesting that the Kenyan cases should neither be deferred nor referred back to the country.

"This petition presents a set of incontrovertible facts which will assist The Security Council and other interested parties to understand why the Kenyan cases at the ICC should neither be deferred nor referred," read the letter that sought to counter the shuttle diplomacy by then Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, who had been tasked by President Kibaki to rally global support for Kenya's petition to have the ICC cases suspended.

Tuesday, Kuria referred to the contents of the letter to suggest that it vindicates his claims. "ODM cited 16 reasons why the Kenyan cases at the ICC should not be deferred nor referred back home. Odinga claims that Ruto is an ally, yet his party where he (Ruto) was his deputy party leader and Henry Kosgey his chairman wrote to the UN Security Council that if they are granted their referral request, it was going to be a basis of perpetuating the culture of impunity in Kenya," he said.

Kuria insisted that the indictment of six suspects from a political contest between ODM and Party of National Unity.

"ODM filed a case at the ICC accusing PNU of stealing elections and PNU accused ODM of causing violence. I was clear when I made my statement that they who are facing charges at The Hague were fixed through recycled witnesses before (Johann) Kriegler commission," he alleged.

Kuria maintained that Raila should share the guilt over the DP's predicaments, since Prof Nyongo did the petition under his direct instructions.

But as he spoke, Njoro MP Joseph Kiuna told MPs attending prayer rallies for the DP to stop "cheapening the lives lost in the post-election violence and to stop revising history".

"If these people were not in Molo, Nakuru or other places where violence happened, let them keep off, let them shut up. They should not blubber about what they do not know," said Kiuna.

Kiuna said the MPs should not rewrite history of the violence that rocked the country 2007-08.

"It is very disappointing and very painful to see some of our leaders talking as if they were not in Kenya when the violence happened. They are going all over the country talking as if what happened was just fiction," said Kiuna, adding, "let leaders not talk as if they are foreigners."