Leaked e-mails address ICC’s Kenyatta ‘bungle’

The claim by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that Kenya was not cooperative during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s trial on charges of crimes against humanity was an attempt by the court to save face. This is according to a French investigative website, Media Part, which has obtained more than 40 000 documents, some of which reveal that former ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo had a hand in the ruling in Kenyatta’s case. The Nation reports that the online publication said Ocampo advised one of the lawyers to denounce Kenya’s lack of cooperation and request a postponement of the case. ‘Blame them (Kenya) before they blame the prosecutor, we need to defend the office of the prosecutor. If they filed before us that the case should be dismissed for lack of evidence, we will be badly exposed,’ reads a leaked e-mail by Ocampo. The report notes that the ICC in 2014 said it had decided to drop Kenyatta’s case due to a lack of evidence because the Kenyan Government refused to co-operate.