Outgoing Attorney General Githu Muigai on Tuesday sent out a request to Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) on its interactions with African States.
Speaking from the Strathmore Business School, Prof. Muigai observed that the interactions between the international court and African countries have remained imbalanced.
"Kenya sees the ICC as an institution that ought to be having a constructive engagement with Africa.
"We ought to have a conversation of equals where issues are resolved with no acrimony," the outgoing AG stated.
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Affirming the role the court has played in ensuring justice for victims of crimes against humanity, the Professor asserted that during his tenure, Kenya had not recently considered breaking ties with the ICC.
"It is important that Kenya never withdrew from ICC, and has no plans at the moment to withdraw," he stated.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, DP William Ruto, former Minister Henry Kosgei and Kass Media owner Joshua Sang are among the high profile Kenyans who have been tried at the court.
Following the 2016 ruling that dropped charges against the indicted individuals, President Kenyatta stated that he would ensure no Kenyan would be tried at the court.
Prof. Muigai and Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti spoke during the Justice for International and Transnational Organised Crimes symposium organised by the Wayamo Foundation and the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability.
The event was attended by a delegation from the ICC led by Philipp Ambach, who serves as the Chief of the Victims Participation and Reparations Section in the Court's registry.
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Mr Kinoti stated: "We are now in a world where a crime is planned in Europe, financed in the USA, perpetrators recruited in Asia, trained in Africa, for a crime to be committed in East Africa.
"That calls for us all to collapse our bureaucracies, commit in networks, and organise like the criminals in order to beat them," he urged.
