According to news from Kenya, about 20 legislators will accompany Vice-President William Ruto to The Hague before his scheduled trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).  Mr. Ruto’s trial begins Tuesday.

In his address, Elisha Kipkorir Busienei, representing Rift Valley in the Kenyan Parliament said,

“All of them are not going to be cross examined, but it is only to show solidarity to him.  What they are doing at The Hague is just a fabrication, and as you can see some of the witnesses are withdrawing because they know that cannot stand and justify what they were talking about.”

Furthermore, another set of 80 lawmakers will go to the trial in batches as part of legislators’ efforts to give him moral support, despite the fact that the legislators will be paying for themselves including the transport and accommodation expenses.

It would be recalled that President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice-President Ruto currently faces charges of complicity in the violence that left about 1,300 people dead and hundreds of thousands displace from their homes following the 2007-2008 post-election violence in the East African nation.

Busienei disagreed with the above allegation leveled against both accused leaders describing it as that which lacks merit.

“Truthfully speaking the members of parliament are actually representing the people from their constituencies, and that is the voice of the people of Kenya that they have a lot of confidence in the president and the deputy president. And that there is not any arrangement that was made, it was just a fabrication, it was just implication, and all other [accusations] that were done is not actually true,” said Busienei