Two members of the Waki Commission have been summoned to The Hague to help the International Criminal Court prosecutor with investigations into abuses committed during the post-election violence in Kenya.Mr Gavin Alistair McFadyen, a former police assistant commissioner in New Zealand and Mr Pascal Kambale, (pictured) an international lawyer from the Democratic Republic of Congo, are expected to help Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo identify problems he can expect to face once he takes over the Kenyan case.
On Sunday, it was not clear whether the two were already at The Hague. Mr Moreno-Ocampo has appointed a 14-member team to work on the case on the basis of information received from chief mediator Kofi Annan, political parties, NGOs and UN agencies.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has urged US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton to press for the sacking of Kenyas attorney general and police commissioner when she meets President Kibaki in Nairobi this week.
The New York-based group also wants Mrs Clinton to announce publicly that Kenyans accused of serious human rights abuses could be banned from the US. In an open letter to the top US diplomat, Human Rights Watch criticised the referring of suspects to Kenyan courts.
And in Nairobi, sources on Sunday said some officials in the Office of the President had tried to block four Cabinet ministers from giving The Hague a blank cheque to try key suspects in the Waki list.
The sources said when Cabinet ministers Mutula Kilonzo, James Orengo, Anyang Nyongo and Attorney General Amos Wako were asked to draft the statement read by the President after Thursdays Cabinet meeting, they inserted a clause allowing the ICC to take over some cases.
However, some senior officials who were overseeing the typing of the document, wanted the clause deleted so that the statement could focus on the High Court and the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission as the only instruments that could deal with the post-election violence suspects.
Daily Nation
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