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Truth commission 'unlikely to try suspects'
The British High Commissioner to Kenya Rob Macaire (left) speaks to journalists when he met Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local government Musalia Mudavadi (right) August 10, 2009 at his Jogoo office. Photo/JENNIFER MUIRURI
Posted Monday, August 10 2009 at 14:35
In Summary
- Mudavadi said that the TJRC was set up with an alternative mandate and it was up to parliament to make any changes.
- Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo says to forward to ICC a report of Cabinet rejection of the two draft Bills on tribunal.
- Move by the minister may prompt action from The Hague which has indicated it readiness to take up the Kenyan situation.
However, Tourism Minister Najib Balala also defended the government noting that it was on course in putting in place the needed reforms in the country. The minister said that the Cabinet on July 30 had committed itself to fastracking reforms in the country to ensure that “impunity is stopped at all cost”.
“We are not going to do it just because we have been told by America to punish people. Some of us are bitter because we want reforms like yesterday. We are making reforms from within,” Mr Balala told the Nation.
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