On Monday late evening William Ruto and Joshua Sung had the last breath as they celebrated when ICC announced that they had no case to answer after a grueling 6 year court proceedings.
The prosecutor had alleged that the witnesses had been intimidated, bribed and even the witnesses tempered with.
This means that the prosecutor will have to go back from stage one, if Fatou Bensouda
wishes to continue with the case the had picked over from her predecessor Moreno Ocampo.
Judges at the International Criminal Court declared a mistrial in the case of Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, throwing out the charges he faced over post-election violence because political interference had made a fair trial impossible.
“The proceedings are declared a mistrial due to a troubling incidence of witness interference and intolerable political meddling,” judges said in a ruling issued on Tuesday.
The collapse of the case against Ruto and his co-accused, broadcaster Joshua arap Sang, follows that last year of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
In both cases, judges have found that witnesses linking the two to murderous violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 elections were bribed or threatened into silence.
By Simon Ingari
