{UAH} One of the reasons people don't bank their money? "Forget President Uhuru Kenyatta's bank records",

Forget President Uhuru Kenyatta's bank records,


AG Githu Muigai tells ICC Updated Friday, February 14th 2014 at 00:12 GMT +3 0 inShare By Felix Olick Kenya: Kenya Government kept its word that it will not furnish The Hague court with records of President Uhuru’s financial transactions — insisting this will first have to be cleared by local courts. As Attorney General fought off the only remaining issue standing between Uhuru and freedom from the grave charges, it also emerged the Prosecution is after much more disclosure of the President’s wealth than cash flow statements during the period of post-election violence. The AG, Prof Githu Muigai, raised the government’s argument. The AG insisted Bensouda has to formally obtain a court order from the Kenyan judiciary for the disclosure of Uhuru’s financial records which as it stands, is the only barrier standing between him and his freedom. The professor of law will today rise in the faraway court to explain why the International Criminal Court should not expect Kenya to help handover the seven key witnesses the Prosecution said exited even after recording damning statements against Deputy President William Ruto. Uhuru’s lawyer Stephen Kay read out the prosecutor’s request that asked Kenyan authorities to disclose “current balances on accounts” held by the accused, through third parties or their firms dating back to June 2007. According to Muigai who is the Government chief Legal Advisor, The Banking Act, The Central Bank Act as well as the Kenya’s Constitution makes it illegal to obtain an individual’s financial records without his consent. “What the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya says as regards the protection of the citizen of the Republic of Kenya regarding disclosure of their private confidential documents is a matter to be determined by domestic law and that is beyond contestation,” he emphasised. “Kenya has not taken that position flippantly, frivolously or to obstruct justice. Its to ensure that the Rome statute, the Constitution of Kenya and the International Crimes Act are enforced in a harmonious manner,” he added. Muigai too suggested ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda wants the President’s wealth laid bare. “What is it that the prosecution wanted about the financial records of Mr Kenyatta? In the document OTP requests that Kenya authorities provide full financial profiles. I have never come across that kind of language in the (Rome) Statute, of fullfinancial profiles of so and so…” Financial records The President’s lawyer argued the request — that is subject of dispute on financial records for January 2008 to detailed movement of funds — was an afterthought. “We were told last week that the only remaining pebble in the prosecution’s case that needed to be looked at is the unexplained movement of large amounts of cash,” Kay countered. GO TO PAGE 1 2 3 Next »
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