International Criminal Court has no blemish so far, so let rulers stop calling for return of cases home

By Anyang Nyongo

NAIROBI, KENYA: I was not surprised when the African Heads of States and governments assembled in Addis Ababa for the 50th Anniversary of the AU and their normal summit, decided to turn their backs on the International Criminal Court. Or at least to say they intend to do so. And as a first step in this direction, they proposed to bring back the Uhuru/Ruto cases from the Hague back to Nairobi, completely oblivious of how the cases ended there in the first place. The ICC has, as expected, refused to budge, arguing that theirs is a legal and not a political process, hence outside the jurisdiction of the assembled excellencies.