The word on the political hemisphere had it that Uhuru had mobilised enough support from Africa union leaders to stage a grand walkout from the ICC which many of the leaders views as the Africans enemy and which Uhuru himself is an indictee following charges pressed against him on PEV 2008.
Top of the agenda in what has been described as an extra ordinary meeting was discussing and voting for a mass pullout.
Currently 34 out of the 57 AU nations are assigned to the ICC. The meeting which was held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia however made a proposal to the ICC’s deferral of cases on any sitting head of state until they live offices.
Currently two heads of states Sudan’s Al Bashir and Kenyans’ Uhuru Kenyatta are both facing crimes against humanity before the ICC with Bashir having an arrest warrant hanging on his neck despite walking freely around in African counties.
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists: “Sitting heads
of state and government should not be prosecuted while in office.
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has been vocal and talking smack against the loud debate on the ladies staging a mass walkout from ICC terming them as leaders seeking licence to butcher,rape their own people without facing judicial consequences.
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