Just like ICC, Maraga is now UhuRuto's political fodder

Chief Justice David Maraga

In the 2013 election, Jubilee’s Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto ran against International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The two Jubilee honchos spun a yarn tying CORD’s Raila Odinga to their ICC woes. They charged that Raila was in collusion with the ICC and the West to deny them tenancy at the State House.

Of course that was a bunch of hooey – Raila had nothing to do with their tribulations at The Hague. But it was an effective lie. The truth was Ms Bensouda, like her predecessor Luis Moreno Ocampo, believed the Jubilee duo belonged to a prison cell at The Hague for crimes against humanity. Five years later, Kenyatta and Ruto have found another convenient scapegoat – Chief Justice David Maraga.