William Ruto, MP Eldoret North (below).
MP William Ruto has invited two witnesses in an effort to fight allegations leveled against him by ICC chief prosecutor Moreno Ocampo at the International Criminal Court. He called former GSU Commandant Samson Cherambos and his immediate neighbor Henry Kiptoo Murray.
It is not clear at this moment why William Ruto could not call people from other ethnic background as his witnesses. The fact that he could only trust his own people of the Kalenjin tribe could work against him once the charges are eventually confirmed. Eldoret North is home to a sizable number of Kikuyu, Luhia, Luo and Kisii tribes out of whom Ruto could have been able to pick trustworthy people as witnesses. The fact that the pre trial chamber judges only allowed an accused person to call only two witnesses means that William Ruto has lost a golden opportunity to wriggle himself from the trap that ICC chief prosecutor had laid in his path “I have never ever stepped at his compound or been in his house at any given time,” Mr. Cherambos maintained.
Lawyer Cynthia Tai one of the many lawyers working for Mr.Ocampo, tried to put Mr Ruto and Cherambos together at the preparatory meetings and even tried to show what role Mr Cherambos allegedly played at the violence
Mr Murei on the other hand admitted that there had been four meetings in Mr Ruto’s Sugoi home in 2007 but vehemently defended them saying no weapons were dished out as alleged.
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