The Kenyan parliament is expected to hold a session to debate ending the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya, Joyce Laboso, released an order for “special sitting of the assembly” with parliament to vote on whether the nation will continue with its membership of the ICC.
Commenting on the potential withdrawal of Kenya from the ICC, the ICC spokesman, Fadi al-Abdallah, said,
“Withdrawing from the Rome Statute has no impact on cases already open, it does not affect investigations, proceedings of trials which have already started”
The existing cases lodged against Kenyatta and Ruto would therefore stand unaffected in the event of Kenya’s withdrawal.