A protestors holds up a placard during a peaceful procession in support of the ICC's no-case-to-answer ruling issued for cases against Deputy President William Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang. Photo/COLLINS KWEYU
The Young Kenyan Nationalists lobby group held a peaceful procession in support of the ICC's no-case-to-answer ruling in Deputy President William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua Arap Sang's cases at the Hague-based court.
The group led by Njuguna Kahonu said that as the chapter of the Hague is closed hard lessons must be learned.
He appealed to Kenyans to coexist peacefully and challenged them to ensure there is no resurgence of political violence as witnessed in 2007-08 at the height of the Post Election Violence.
The lobby group said the focus should now be to take the country through a healing process instead of dividing it.
Kahonu said that more importantly the victims must now be taken care of and their rights and lives restored as the dark past of post election violence is put behind.
ICC judges yesterday said ‘troubling incidences’ of witness tampering and ‘intolerable’ political meddling led them to declare a mistrial in the last Kenya case at The Hague.
They did not, however, stop ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda from re-prosecuting the two for the 2007/08 post-election violence at a later date.
The judges said the prosecution has not presented sufficient evidence that could link Ruto and Sang to the crimes they were being accused of.
