President Uhuru Kenyatta says that Deputy President William Ruto's case at the Hauge is proof enough that the country is cooperating with the ICC.
Kenyatta said that Ruto willingly submitting to the court when he was required to do so, following the 2007/2008 post-election violence in the country, shows that Kenya has always and will always cooperate with the ICC.
He was speaking at State House when the new Assembly of State Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute of the ICC, President Sidiki Kaba paid him a courtesy call.
The president added that Kenya believes in justice thus his government would continue to cooperate with the ICC.
In a series of tweets from the president's account after the meeting, Kenyatta said he had appealed to the ICC not to focus on justifying its existence at the expense of its core mandate of delivering international justice.
He added that despite African countries expressing concern over whose agenda the ICC is pushing, they have never failed to cooperate with the ICC.
“The objective of the ICC must be to bring people together and ensure justice is served but not to cause more problems,” one of the tweets read.
The visit by Sidiki comes a week ahead of the ruling of the case at the Hauge on whether Kenya is cooperating with the ICC.
ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has in the past accused Kenyatta's government of failure to cooperate.
She said that one of the reasons Kenyatta's case had to be dropped was Kenya's non cooperation with the ICC.
Bensouda claimed that the Jubilee government had been frustrating her investigations into the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence.
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