It may be wise for President to appear before ICC judges

Nairobi; Kenya: The requirement for President Uhuru Kenyatta to appear before the ICC judges next week for status conference proceedings seems to have given rise to a passionate debate. Aden Duale, the Majority Leader of the National Assembly, has been particularly vocal in his opposition, describing the summons as sinister and deliberately intended to humiliate the President in particular and Kenyans in general. According to Duale, President Kenyatta is the duly elected president of a sovereign country and must not be made to attend court in a foreign land.

Whereas I am generally in agreement with Duale on the apparent frivolity of requiring the President to appear at the ICC after the near collapse of his case, I am not quite with the Majority Leader in his line of argument on humiliation. As far as I know, the attendance of court in and of itself does not amount to an act of humiliation.