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Cabinet bid to protect poll chaos witnesses
Opposition supporters burn objects and brandish crude weapons during protests at the height of the post- election violence. PHOTO/ FILE
Posted Monday, February 1 2010 at 22:00
In Summary
- Wako wants the law changed to secure evidence for Hague vote violence trials
Mr Moreno-Ocampo has asked the government to take urgent steps to protect the witnesses as he awaits a ruling on his application. He has tasked Mr Lasi Kuusienen, a security officer at The Hague, to come to Kenya to asses the intensity of threats to the witnesses.
The trip was, however, postponed and Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo is now expecting a registrar from the ICC to assess the situation.
“The meeting with ICC officials has been postponed and they have indicated that another officer will come to us,” he said when contacted about the meeting with the ICC team.
The Witness Protection Act of 2006 was enacted in light of the difficulties that were experienced during the prosecution of high level corruption cases and those of terror suspects accused of bombing the US embassy in Nairobi and Paradise Hotel in Kikambala, Mombasa.
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