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Sometime in 2012, Uhuru Kenyatta (now President) and William Ruto (now Deputy President) were at a crossroads.
They were facing serious charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes committed following the controversial 2007 General Election. The violence claimed more than 1,000 lives and displaced more than 300,000 people. As the ICC cases were unraveling, another headache was emerging on the domestic front. A group of civil society organisations filed a case at the High Court seeking interpretation of Chapter 6 of the Constitution. The apparent motive behind it was to stop the duo from participating in the elections.
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