7 years a slave: Why Bensouda must drop case against Ruto, Sang

That would be an apt movie to describe Kenya’s unfortunate dalliance with the International Criminal Court (ICC). As a country, we have lost seven years that would have been better directed at nation building, cohesion and national reconciliation.

The seven years represent an unforgivable atrocity on the victims of post-election violence by engaging them on the false trail of the wrong suspects. For the wrong suspects, the personal anguish, questions from mothers, fathers, spouses and children as well as the burden of crimes they know they did not commit are all enough to qualify as their darkest seven years.