We should confront the truth and put ICC populist politics to rest

Let us not trivialise issues of life and death. Life is sacred. I don’t think the fact that we lost 1,300 people during the post-election violence (PEV) is a matter we should deal with lightly. Families lost loved ones. Children were left without bread winners when mother and father were killed. A man like Ndege saw his family of eleven burnt alive in Naivasha: he lives with scars of that horrible incident to this day, not knowing how to reconcile with man’s inhumanity to man.

Twenty thousand people were rendered homeless, some of who still live in camps to this day. Many more lost valued property, and the system of compensation never worked fairly for all.