The ugly drama at ASP on Rule 68 doesn’t help Ruto

It is either an exceptionally powerful death wish or pure innocence – or even both. As Kenya was pleading for Papal prayers this week, a large detail of State officials was clowning before the world, at the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) and embarrassing their government and country. They were in Europe to protest against perceived injustice in the case against Deputy President William Ruto. Mostly made of legislators, they have created the curious narrative that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has conspired with the Opposition to “fix” the Deputy President, “so that he does not ascend to power when President Uhuru Kenyatta retires in 2022.”

They carried their usual juvenile unruliness to a solemn and structured international forum. They behaved as if they were at one of their peculiar “prayer meetings,” where nihilism is the norm. They screamed, heckled, clowned and made themselves preposterous. Who sends out people to fool about like this?