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Nakuru residents and a lobby group have said the National Assembly must stop its planned debate of the Waki report on the 2007/2008 post-election violence.
The residents said revisiting it would reopen old wounds.
Mr William Ruto and Mr Uhuru Kenyatta came together in the last election, said Mr Joseph Njuguna.
Counties Efficiency in Development lobby group coordinator James Mugo said debating the Waki report would not help the ICC cases.
Mr Mugo condemned the move by Jubilee MPs to form a parliamentary team to look into the report.
The formation of the 15-member committee to discuss the report is untimely and unnecessary. It will only serve to open old wounds, said the lobbyist.
Mr Nicholas Kamau, a director of the Stiff-Will Initiative Alliance, for his part, threatened to move to court to challenge the move.
I have instructed my lawyers to move to court and stop the planned debate, said Mr Kamau.
Coaching witnesses
National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale, who is rooting for the debate, argues that the committee will compel Judge Philip Waki to give evidence to counter claims of witness coaching and evidence tampering in the ICC case.
In February, the ICC admitted as evidence the Waki commissions report that investigated the post-election violence.
The trial chamber judges stated the document was relevant particularly to the background of the case.
The Waki commissions document formed the basis of the Kenyan ICC cases following recommendations for the trial of those listed in the infamous Waki envelope.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has been naming witnesses he allegedly helped procure for the Kriegler and Waki commissions.
Meanwhile, displaced people have asked politicians to stop their prayer rallies for Mr Ruto, saying they are dividing Kenyans.
A spokesman, Mr Magenyi Kepha, said politicians were using the rallies to incite violence.
These are political rallies disguised as prayers and all the tribal clashes started in this manner, he noted.
None of the prayers is even touching on the victims and the plight they went through.
They are just a political gimmick and a move to earn political mileage, he said.
Daily Nation
The residents said revisiting it would reopen old wounds.
Mr William Ruto and Mr Uhuru Kenyatta came together in the last election, said Mr Joseph Njuguna.
Counties Efficiency in Development lobby group coordinator James Mugo said debating the Waki report would not help the ICC cases.
Mr Mugo condemned the move by Jubilee MPs to form a parliamentary team to look into the report.
The formation of the 15-member committee to discuss the report is untimely and unnecessary. It will only serve to open old wounds, said the lobbyist.
Mr Nicholas Kamau, a director of the Stiff-Will Initiative Alliance, for his part, threatened to move to court to challenge the move.
I have instructed my lawyers to move to court and stop the planned debate, said Mr Kamau.
Coaching witnesses
National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale, who is rooting for the debate, argues that the committee will compel Judge Philip Waki to give evidence to counter claims of witness coaching and evidence tampering in the ICC case.
In February, the ICC admitted as evidence the Waki commissions report that investigated the post-election violence.
The trial chamber judges stated the document was relevant particularly to the background of the case.
The Waki commissions document formed the basis of the Kenyan ICC cases following recommendations for the trial of those listed in the infamous Waki envelope.
Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has been naming witnesses he allegedly helped procure for the Kriegler and Waki commissions.
Meanwhile, displaced people have asked politicians to stop their prayer rallies for Mr Ruto, saying they are dividing Kenyans.
A spokesman, Mr Magenyi Kepha, said politicians were using the rallies to incite violence.
These are political rallies disguised as prayers and all the tribal clashes started in this manner, he noted.
None of the prayers is even touching on the victims and the plight they went through.
They are just a political gimmick and a move to earn political mileage, he said.
Daily Nation