@obi, sure, we seldom agree, n that is surely good for me. I wish ua brother OMBIja pulled a similar stance against Bush. I also hope Kenya stands to gain fm the warrant, and fm the ICC with ua uncle RAO freely roaming the streets! Bashir is a criminal, bt its none of our f***ing business.

Pray tell me, what does kenya begs from Al Bashir.Does he put some petro-moolah into some guys pockets here in kenya?

Simonkabz.
It ain't a personal thing, lets just agree to disagree on principles.

I certainly almost never agree with most of your opinions on things but I am not in anyway suggesting that my way is better, we are just different.

Ombija, RAO,,,,I think I missed the connection

I agree 100% with this article by David Makali. Since Mo1 left power, Kenya does not think when it comes to foreign policy.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201112051974.html

@kratos bravo! U used some very key terms..
1. ...cannot say what we are gaining by the warrant.
2. ...high moral ground as if we are better..
3. This self importance...
4. We do not live in an ideal world...
Dnt add anything. This is a true REALIST.

Boss, you've said it all. Let's start respecting the constitution and upholding the rule of law if we want to become a better kenya.

Part of the problem after the 2007 elections was that one party did not have faith in our courts and the other party(the one that's among those rubbishing judge Ombija's ruling)asked the other to take their grievances to court. Now that we are seeing a judiciary that's willing to make some tough decision no matter how unpopular we are still complaining. When will we see reason?

To add on, the justice system does not start and stop at the Courts. For Kenyans to gain confidence with the system we need to improve the whole procedure and not just the judgments. As an individual I should be confident that;
1.When I report a matter to the police/concerned authority, it will be taken up for proper investigations
2.As the aggrieved party I should be able to monitor the process
3.The person/s whom I have accused does not interfere with the investigations
4.The prosecutor or my lawyer is competent enough to handle my case
5.There is a time limit for which a case can be heard thereby not denying me justice
6.Records are kept and are accessible through trace (Hii mambo ya file haipatikani should not be there)
7.The judge does not collude with the other party hence influencing the outcome of the case
8.There is also a time limit as to the effect date of the judgment
9.The judgment meted out is commensurate with the crime (mambo ya mwizi wa kuku being jailed to 20 years and someone who eats up a whole parastatal only gets 2 years hapana!)
10.Etc..
See? Confidence in the Judiciary has nothing to do with one “activist minded judgment

I think Dr. Willy Mutunga is trying to take care of some of your concerns with the reforms he is carrying out to clean up the judiciary and digitisation of judiciary will also address some of your issues. As for the police, i didn't know they were part of the judiciary, am hearing this from you for the first time. I thought they were law enforcers and an extension of the Executive.

FACTS:
1.He might be popularly elected but that's still in doubt since there were massive opposition boycotts and allegations of fraud. He had said he will not seek re-election sometimes back seeing the revolts that were happening in the Arab world meaning he was beginning to doubt his popularity.
2.We are not forcing anything on Sudan and we are not telling them to arrest their own president.
3.Kenya is obliged to arrest Al Bashir if he sets foot in kenya since they agreed to be part and parcel of the Rome Statute. Bashir has travelled to a few countries since the warrants, some trips being cancelled the last minute after the hosts realised it would hurt there other agendas. Some presidents threatened to boycott some function if Al Bashir was present and he had had to reroute on a trip to china after his plane was refused passage over some country's airspace. As you can see governments are scared of him and he has not had the occassion to visit a country that is willing to arrest him or one that doesn't want anything to do with him. Uganda and Rwanda have declared they would arrest him if he sets foot in their countries.