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If the general elections, world cups, a Harambee stars match or even the annual safari seasons ever caused ripples in the nation, then the ICC trials surpasses them all. Since the first time the suspects appeared before the pretrial chamber, to the confirmation hearings, events, strategies and alliances have all been made with the Hague process as reference. That the suspects secured hot shot attorneys, the media hype surrounding have all thrown the rugby world cup out of ranks as the first choice.

Politicians, pollsters and even armchair analysts have all come up with theories as regards to who the biggest losers and winners are going to be bearing in mind that two leading presidential candidates whose worth cannot be wished away are involved and the two have made the possibility of inclusion of a third a not so distant reality.

That the bungled generation elections of 2007 was the straw that broke the camel’s back or that the violence broke out along tribal lines is a fact that few can try to oppose. The six co accused have all been very vehement in their denials and any court of public opinion would be unfair not to believe them. However, whist the six are Kenyans or that the first three were Kalenjin should not be read as a charge against any of the aforementioned groups.

The charges are against the six and any attempt to drag public emotion should be treated with the contempt that they deserve .the clergy have also not left behind in this craze as they momentarily remove their gabardines and participate in the debate based on their ethnic or political affiliation which a time are highly synonymous.

It’s a high time we realized that the nation is greater than any individual and rise above narrow segments to defend the good name of our republic, the feeling that we get after one, two, three sweep in the three thousand steeplechase or for the pride of having a Kenyan revolutionize mobile banking through innovations such as the MPESA.

Natural justice has to be seen to be done as opposed to sectarian baying of blood, evaluation of all root causes of the post election violence skirmishes as opposed to laying off some few people at the altar of sacrifice. whichever way the proceedings go, politicians are always going to do what they do best-say what they need to get what they need and our nation will always remain .long live Kenya.