Since the 2007-2009 disputed general election that culminated in violence and the loss of over 800 lives and scores uprooted from their homes,the name 'The Hague' has been held in fear by Kenya's political elite ,and in admiration by the public.The country's justice system is full of holes.So the crafty politician(there are many here) who led the 2007 mayhem in any way was expected to get away with his callous role in the electoral aftermath.
Most of the suspects implicated in Justice Philip Waki's now both famous and infamous envelope,are actually holding key positions in the current coalition government that was midwifed by Koffi Annan among other imminent persons in 2009.Justice Waki was asked to investigate the perpetrators of the violence.
Once he was done,he fowarded the names of the culpable people to Mwai Kibaki(President Of Kenya) and dispatched a copy to Koffi Annan.It is expected that they (the suspects)will face justice owing to the confidence exuded by chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo on his recent tour of the country.This is known.What is still unclear is when?
Early this year,Mr Ocampo issued hints of the names in Waki's envelope.Newspapers tried to link the hints and to some extent Kenyans have a vague idea of who might be indicted in the International Criminal Court(ICC).
This week, one of them(Mr William Ruto),in a move that has since sent shock waves particularly in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM),started out of Nairobi to The Hague.According to him,he seeks to set the record straight on the
issue.
Might he spill the beans and land many in trouble?Or was Raila's decision to distance himself from him a political misstep?It is every politicians worry here currently.
Granted,he was a sworn friend of Prime Minister,Raila Odinga whose ODM has been mentioned in connection to the violence by such erstwhile friends as Isaac Ruto of ODM.
Has ODM been caught in an intricate situation?Well,time will tell.
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