Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and Francis Kirimi Muthaura seen here at the ICC flanked by their lawyers.
Mr.Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s Deputy Preme Minister used the outlawed Mungiki criminal gang and the police to attack ODM supporters in Naivasha and Nakuru towns just after the 2007 polls, the International Criminal Court was told yesterday.
PNU leaders masterminded the attacks with the assistance of Mungiki and the Police, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo told the hearing in The Hague. However Uhuru’s lawyers have termed Mr. Ocampo’s evidence as a pack of lies.
Uhuru Kenyatta, who is also Kenya’s Finance minister, Francis Muthaura, currently head of Kenya’s civil service and Mr. Mohammed Hussein Ali, the current post master general and who was the Police Commissioner when the skirmishes took place are facing judges to see if they should stand trial for the 2007/08 unrest. The three each face five counts of crimes against humanity and remain free.
The prosecutor Mr. Moreno Ocampo pointed out a meeting that was organized on the 30th December 2007, where Uhuru Kenyatta is alleged to have proposed the use of the Mungiki gang in reprisal attacks against ODM supporters. He went on to say that Uhuru Kenyatta is closely associated with the Mungiki gang.
The Mungiki gang is described by some Kikuyu leader’s heroes similar to a sect inspired by the Mau-Mau who fought for Kenyan independence.
The gang, whose strongholds are in Nairobi and in areas dominant by the Kikuyu ethnic group, has gradually turned into a group engaged in racketeering widely known for beheading some of its victims.
But the most sensational claim made by the prosecutor must have been the one where he claimed that planning for retaliatory attacks were held at State House Nairobi. State House is where the president runs the affairs of The State from. This disclosure may not be news to the majority of Kenyan’s who have been keen followers of the ICC case but it is the first time the matter has been mentioned in court at the ICC.
This and the other disclosures of how Uhuru Kenyatta paid Mungiki leaders Sh. 3.5 million to assist in logistics is set to raise more questions about his suitability as a leader in the eyes of those who are not from his ethnic community, the Kikuyu.
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