Journalist Joshua Sang yesterday pleaded his innocence before the International Criminal Court judges as his lawyers asked for the charges against him to be dropped.
Lawyer Katwa Kigen told the judges the evidence presented by the prosecution shows he is innocent.
“Using the prosecution’s own evidence, it is manifest that Mr Sang is innocent. The prosecution has used material that we presented during cross-examination and used it to say Mr Sang has a case to answer,” he said.
Kigen said the prosecution presented evidence it does not understand especiallyin relation to election rigging claims concerning the December 27, 2007 general election.
“In its own documents, the prosecution says that PNU was rigging the election as government. This is a wrong fact as PNU was not the ruling party. This shows how mistaken the prosecution is on Kenya,” he said.
Kigen said Sang did not say the Kikuyu took Kalenjin jobs and land as alleged by the prosecution though it was discussed at Kass FM “like anywhere else”.
“This is an issue that supersedes Sang. In any case, this was a discussion that was happening all over the country and went on beyond Sang’s time as a radio presenter,” Kigen said.