The ICC only tried those accused of very serious charges like crime against humanity. If anyone is found guilty of such charges, he or she is clearly not fit to hold the highest office in the land.
It is therefore paramount that if a seating president accused of such serious crime the law should be allowed to take its course as soon as possible so that the office bearer clear their name if they are innocent rather than pretend to govern with the sword of Damocles hanging over their head. The country can swear in someone else to act head of state whilst the case is being held.
If the president should be found guilty of committing the heinous crimes the nation be relieved to see the thug in jail and not in state house for even a day.
If we are to accept Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed's insistence that the ICC should not try seating heads of state to its logical conclusion then the nation should scrap all constitutional provisions to impeach any seating head of state.
Africa's political and economic problems stem from the fact that the commitment to the rule of law has been very weak and feeble at best. The continent's leaders make a big sing and dance about freedom, justice, peace, human rights, democracy, free and fair elections, etc., etc., whilst they are seeking to be elected. As soon as they are in power they want all the restrains against them designed to protect and guarantee the individual freedom, etc. removed. They insist they will never abuse their power as everything they do is for the good
of the nation which is all nonsense of course.
The whole concept of free and fair elections, a concept they subscribed too whilst seeking office, is designed to pre-empt the tendency by leaders to be big-head and to view themselves infallible and therefore should not be judge by fallible mortals. Leader are just as fallible as the rest of us and to put them above the law is sheer folly.
President Kenyatta and his vice, Ruto, face charges of crimes against humanity at the ICC over their alleged role in fomenting post-election violence in 2007-8 resulting in the displacement of 300 000 people and the killing of 1,100 people. These are very serious charges and I for one am very pleased that the UN Security rejected Kenya and the AU's shrill calls for the hearings postponed! Well done!
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Every day there fresh reports of serious human rights violations in Africa; the continent is a hot bed of beating and murder. Africa itself has yet to try one case of these human rights violations and so if the ICC is stopped bringing those responsible to justice then in Africa no one else will. That will not do anything to stop the madness sweeping the continent but make it even worse.
The only Africans who have been trying to stop ICC doing its work are those with either a totally misplace sense of pride who think have the continent's murderous tyrant paraded before the ICC is damaging the continent's image. Of course it is misplace pride because only a moron would think it better to have these heinous crimes swept under the carpet and thus tacitly allow them to continue when they should be exposed and stopped.
Or those who have blood on their hands and therefore want to escape justice. These idiots believed, at least whilst they were carrying out the beating, rape and murders that they were above the law. We must dispel this stupid notion that anyone is above the law and the ICC is doing a great job by dragging murderous tyrants from Europe, Asia, Africa or wherever to face justice!
Long live the ICC. Long live the long arm of justice!
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