Kimani Ichungw'ah, Majority Leader in the National Assembly, has suggested inviting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to oversee opposition actions in Kenya.
Ichungw'ah says he will bring the ICC agenda to the Kenya Kwanza parliamentary group gathering next week, accusing Opposition leader Raila Odinga Of using violence and chaos to blackmail the government. Ichungw'ah says that If his proposal is approved, he will officially ask the Hague-based court to monitor the Kenyan situation actively.
"We want to tell Raila, we have no problem with you demonstrating...but demonstrate peacefully. And that's why we are telling Raila Odinga, your system of looting, your system of anarchy, your system of using bloodshed to blackmail the country will come to an end and not next year, not after the next elections... This year, that system must come to an end," said Ichung'wah.
"Blackmail us, and we will tell you this is blackmail. If you want to create chaos, we will call it anarchy. And that is why I have said we will propose an agenda to our PG meeting next week that we write to the ICC to take measures to ensure that Raila Odinga and his sponsors do not slide our country back to anarchy." he added.
Kenya Kwanza officials have refused Odinga's demands to broaden the reach of the nonpartisan discussions to end the opposition-led anti-government demonstrations.
With Odinga asking for the talks to be expanded to replicate the Koffi Annan-led National Dialogue that resulted in the Grand Coalition Government in 2008, the leaders are emphatic that the talks will take place within the confines of parliament as outlined by the president.
Kenya Kwanza leaders said they were ready to send the names of their members to oversee the bipartisan discussions.
