Former Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura has disclosed why former President Mwai Kibaki (late) wanted to stop International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo from coming to Kenya.
According to Muthaura, Kibaki felt like the ICC coming in would make the process longer.
Muthaura said Kibaki wanted the matter done with and have the country to move forward, because the stability of the country also depended on it.
"Kibaki was a very interesting person. If I can tell you the truth, at one time, he wanted to stop Ocampo from coming. He said this post-election violence was a very serious affair in terms of the future and stability of this country and the sooner we got out of this, the better. I know when the court gets here it will prolong... I am going to stop it," he said on Citizen TV.
Muthaura noted that he then advised the former President against the move.
He then advised Kibaki that if he pulled the plug, he would end up being the bad guy and all blame would fall on him.
"I advised him, Your excellency, since this is a matter that has reached international investigations, if you stop, you'll now become the bad guy. But for him he wanted to stop because he did not want this dragging on the matter of post election violence because it was very painful to him."
He noted that Kibaki had two opportunities (in cabinet and in parliament) to stop the ICC from taking over the 2007-2008 post election violence matter but was not able to do so.
Muthaura said this is because the government at the time was of a grand coalition and it was difficult to agree on certain things.
"There was more of a problem within the government itself. It was a coalition that is why we could not have those decisions made effectively. Each side was blaming the other side and government divided is a very weak government."
