President Kenyatta can do Better than Attacking the ICC
President
Uhuru Kenyatta always talks against and attacks the ICC. He has always and
successfully so endeavoured to position Kenya and Kenyans against the ICC for
his own personal and political gains with total disregard of the real issues.
No wonder he still needs a poor and uninformed populace to keep manipulating
for his own good and the good of those around him. As president, Kenyatta has
never sought to have a genuine national conversation around how some Kenyans
including himself ended up in the ICC. He has never used his position as
president to make any known genuine attempt at addressing the issues that led
Kenya to the ICC, he never ever wants to mention the TJRC process and its
report, he avoids the Ndung'u report like a plague. He doesn't want to tackle
the real issue. ICC is a symptom, the disease was and still is elsewhere and he
perfectly knows where. On national days of importance like #JamhuriDay2016 the president should lead the nation into a deeper national
conversation, national consciousness raising and soul searching that may help
reinstate the lost covenant. He has clear avenues in the constitution to
initiate and sustain national dialogue on national cohesion and integration for
peace, security and development of our nation. But then, for some strange
reason, he chooses to treat the nation to endless rhetoric. Our president is
very quick to quote the constitution when he wants to tell us that his hands
are tied and that there is nothing he can do in dealing with corruption since
the supreme law has created institutions that are 'too independent' but he
elides the national charter on areas where it creates for him clear avenues to
lead the people of Kenyan into creating a nation that posterity will be proud
of. He has been assigned the role of symbol of national unity but his word and
conduct do not quite represent and reflect such a symbolism. The President has
clearly chosen to settle for less, even with full knowledge that he can
actually and should achieve much more
President Kenyatta can do Better than Attacking the ICC
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
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December 13, 2016
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