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    "content": "“Ladies and gentlemen; my name is so-and-so. I am a liar and I lied. I was coached. I was given Kshs1 million to implicate Sang and Ruto. I was forced to sign a statement and to include Ruto’s name.” The least we expect from a fair judicial system is the arrest and imprisonment of a person who says that they are the ones responsible for lying and fabricating non-existence evidence by admitting that they are the ones who have put Joshua Sang and William Ruto in trouble. However, has anything happened? Nothing has happened. Instead, we are being treated to funny theories of how President Uhuru is powerful and that no evidence can be gathered when he is in office. He has not been the President for more than one- and-half years. The Office of the Prosecutor has been on this case for six years now. If evidence does not exist, then it does not exist. Strangely enough, fate has a way of exposing wickedness. There is now a new prosecutor. The Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is trying to revamp itself after the skunk that these two cases have created courtesy of Ocampo. There was a fellow there in the prosecution who was very emotional and quite impressive. However, he let the cat out of the bag when he was pressed by the judges to say how long he wants the matter adjourned. He said he did not know how long it should be adjourned and added; “we do not know how long it can be postponed since we have run out of hooks on which to hang this matter.” That means that they were looking for hooks. He said that the best time to deal with it is probably 2017. Does he know something that we do not know regarding what will happen in 2017? This underlies what we have been saying all along that these two cases are political. The ICC came to Kenya to carry out politics. We have told them and warned them that they failed in 2013 and will fail again in 2017. They will fail forever and forever more. The question of who becomes the President of Kenya is an issue of the people of Kenya. This should be determined by the people of Kenya. It is a shame that some brethren in this country - people that we held a lot of respect for - are busy giving all manner of horrendous repute about Kenya and telling us how we should solve our problems as a country. The people they are talking to about the ICC have themselves refused to be part and parcel of the court. As I end my remarks, I want to say that I am a firm believer in international justice. I am a firm believer that people should not use their offices to run away from criminal responsibility. Going by the experiences we have had as a country in the ICC, unless radical reforms are done on the Rome Statute and on the rules of procedure of evidence, the ICC has already exposed its soft underbelly. This is just a court where anything goes and where anything carries. When the spectacular collapse of the Kenyan cases happens – because the question is when and not if – we will, in my estimation as a legal scholar, spell or put the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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