Speaking to Al Jazeera TV, on Saturday, the DPM Uhuru Kenyatta said him and his running mate Eldoret North MP William Ruto will continue to appear before the ICC even if they are elected President and Vice respectively.
Uhuru said there will be no vacuum of power in the country despite the Rome Statutes requiring that the accused must be present in court during the trial.
“There is absolutely no power vacuum in the country because one thing that people always tend to forget is that Kenya is not a banana republic. Kenya is a country that actually has really firm and clear institutions in place,” Uhuru told Al-Jazeera’s journalist Folly Bah Thibault.
Uhuru, who has been touted as Kenya fourth President said since the two cases are different and there was a possibility that they would not be required in court at the same time, it is possible for the country to be run by either of them.
“And we also are not facing similar charges. We are never there at the same time at all. So consequently the system and the state will continue to run regardless of the court. The two are not interlinked,” Uhuru said.
Uhuru and Ruto are among four Kenyans The Hague based court has charged with heinous crimes against humanity in relation to the 2007-08 post election violence.
The Hague trials start in April- a month after the country goes to the polls.
There is a great possibility that the country will be holding the Presidential run-off, if there is no winner in round one, on the same date the trials start.
source:the kenyan daily post
