The issue is that the US long ago warned that it would never allow the ICC to investigate or try any American soldier for war crimes. In 1998, 120 countries signed the Rome Statute which set up the ICC, and America was not among them. DETERRENCEHaving said all that, the world still needs the ICC or a similar body to prefect it. Mr Echesa was plucked from nowhere for the plum job and we still don’t know why. My advice to Mr Echesa is to get over it and move on: Sitting in the Cabinet is not a matter of life and death.

Source: Daily Nation April 12, 2019 19:07 UTC