IS THE ICC SERVING ITS RIGHTFUL PURPOSE?

ICC headquarters, Hague, The Netherlands.

 The ICC has taken the form of H.E Mr. Uhuru and Mr. Ruto’s shadows. Everywhere their names are mentioned, the sore issue of the ICC also comes up. During the inauguration of H.E president Uhuru Kenyatta, a few speeches stood out and amongst them was Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni’s speech. Using some very strong words, president Museveni criticized the ICC as a tool being used to drive the agenda of the west and to blackmail Africans. With regards to the ICC, Mr. Kenyatta indicated in his speech that he and his government shall not be bullied by other forces.

The sentiments of the two leaders are being echoed across the continent as people begin to wonder whether the court was designed for Africans only. So far only Africans have been indicted by the court among them being Kenya’s president and his deputy Mr. Uhuru and Mr. Ruto, former Liberian President Charles Taylor who was sentenced to a life imprisonment by the court and a warrant of arrest is out for Sudan’s president. We are not saying that the aforementioned are guilty or innocent, that is not ours to say. What we ask is this, are there no crimes against humanity being committed in non-African countries?

Kenyans and Africa is tired of being bullied, of being seen like we cannot handle and solve our own problems without ‘assistance’. There is talk of the African Union establishing its own court that will deal with cases of crimes against humanity involving Africans. It is a lot of people’s wish that this will come to be as the ICC has turned the search for justice into a platform for propagating the agenda’s of the western countries