NAIROBI: FORMER POLICE COMMISSIONER PROMISES TO RESPECT ICC SUMMONS

Former Police Commissioner Major General Hussein Ali who is on the Ocampo six list has promised to honour the ICC's summons next month.

Following yesterday's summons by the International Criminal Court for the six Kenyans suspected to be the masterminds of the 20008 post-election violence reactions on the same have began.
Former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali on Wednesday said he will honour summons to appear before judges at the International Criminal Court.Mr Ali, through his lawyer Evans Monari, said he will be at The Hague on April 7 as ordered."I have received instructions from my client and we are making arrangements to be at the court at 2.30pm on April 7," Mr Monari said.
Mr Ali has been accused of instructing police officers to allow members of the outlawed Mungiki militia to attack people deemed to supporters of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) in Nakuru and Naivasha at the height of the violence.
Mr Sang is on record saying that he will fully cooperate with the ICC following the summons."I will use that opportunity to prove my innocence in the court," said the radio presenter.Judges at the ICC's Pre-trial Chamber II on Tuesday ruled that there were grounds to show that Mr Ali, Mr Sang and four other prominent Kenyans were criminally liable for the post election violence that rocked the country in the aftermath to the disputed presidential election in 2007.
The others are Uhuru Kenyatta (Deputy Prime Minister), Francis Muthaura (Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Civil Service), William Ruto (Cabinet Minister currently suspended on an unrelated corruption case) and Henry Kosgey (Cabinet Minister currently suspended corruption and abuse of office case).

Kelvin Mwangi,
Nairobi.