CORD MPs to snub President Uhuru’s address

Kenya: Senator Bonnie Khalwale and Moses Wetangula have announced that CORD MPs will not attend President Uhuru Kenyatta’s adress in Parliament on Monday.

The announcement was made after Speakers of the National Assembly wrote text messages to MPs requesting  them to attend a special sitting to be addressed by the President.

CORD MPs feel that the President wants to adress them over ICC status conference summons which to them is not a National issue.  The agenda of the meeting was not stated in the message.  

The President is scheduled to travel to The Hague next week to answer to charges of organising ethnic massacres that killed 1,200 people after the 2007 elections.