Rwanda has said genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga could still be hiding in Kenya. Rwandan prosecutor general Martin Ngoga yesterday said although his country does not have evidence, it believes the position taken by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda prosecutor that the fugitive is in Kenya.
"The ICTR prosecutor says Kabuga is in Kenya. I have no tools to provide an alternative version but to trust him," Ngoga told the press yesterday at a public debate on elections, impunity and accountability at Strathmore University.
Kabuga is wanted by the ICTR in Arusha for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people, mainly Tutsis, were killed.
Claims that he is in Kenya have also been made by Stephen Rapp,
the US ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues in the Obama administration.
Kenyan authorities however deny Kabuga is hiding in the country. Former Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang'ula had in the past challenged those making such claims to provide evidence of Kabuga's whereabouts.
Ngoga however said Kenya gave away itself in 2009 when the Permanent Representative to the UN told the Security Council that Kabuga had left Kenya.
"When the Kenyan permananent representative said Kabuga had left Kenya, there were questions raised. This was, in my view a form of admission by Kenya that Kabuga was here," he said. "The latest version that the ICTR prosecutor has is that he is in Kenya. I cannot question that."