History teaches us that we do not learn from history. Kenyan courts, according to President Uhuru Kenyatta, are suddenly sufficient to handle all matters Kenyan. Their sufficiency and capacity to dispense swift justice is such that he found need to vow that no Kenyan would ever face any foreign court again. Such was the extent of anguish and mental torture from his handful appearances at the ICC; he has petitioned Parliament to take the necessary steps to end all ties with The Hague-based court.
Kenya ratified the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding treaty in 2005, giving The Hague court complementary jurisdiction for crimes against humanity committed in Kenya.