With friends like us, ICC needs no enemies

It is sad but true that during a week in which the world’s eyes were trained on Kenya for all the wrong reasons, some among us have sought every opportunity to diminish our standing as a nation even further. It is perhaps no exaggeration to say that we have collectively succeeded in making fools of ourselves before the whole world.

While Deputy President William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua arap Sang were doing their best to stay on the right side of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Kenyan social media trolls were making life hell on Earth all over again for a victim of the violence that engulfed Kenya after the 2007 elections.