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Hopes of PEV victims acquiring justice shattered

It was at the ‘thanksgiving ceremony” at the famous Afraha Stadium that the Head of State dropped the bomb shell, “That chapter we have closed. We have our own courts, we will sort out our own issues. I don’t want to see any Kenyan going out there again, we are not going back there…that chapter is closed…” The president uttered these with much intensity and his body language confirmed the same. The statement left tongues wagging as it was unexpected especially after the termination of the cases.

The Head of State’s statements have a lot of ramification both locally and on the global scene. I fail to understand why withdrawal from ICC is of importance to the current regime especially after the termination of the Ocampo six cases.

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