ICC case shows President Uhuru Kenyatta is key pointman in regional politics

Barely a year in office, President Uhuru Kenyatta through the African Union, launched an aggressive international push, last year, for a review of the Rome Statute to give immunity to sitting African presidents against prosecution. But as fate would have it, the President will personally appear before the International Criminal Court on October 8.

The extraordinary AU summit in Addis Ababa on October 12, last year, advised Kenyatta or any sitting Head of State not to honour the summons to appear before the court.