Kenya’s Chief Justice Willy Mutunga says him  and other  judges have been threatened with “dire consequences” if courts block  presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta from running in the  imminent country’s  elections.

Kenyatta, who is a son of the country’s founding president ,Jomo Kenyatta  is one of four Kenyans accused at the International Criminal Court of orchestrating violence that killed 1,200 people after Kenya’s  2007 election.

He is supposed to be tried at the Hague for the Crimes in April after the election  together with  his running mate William Ruto.

Because of the crimes ,pressure groups  asked Kenya’s High Court to disqualify them from contesting the election but the  Court  on Friday refused to disqualify  them arguing that it did not have the power to annul Mr Kenyatta’s  candidacy.
The Chief Justice Mutunga says he  has received a “poison-pen letter” from a group “extolling” violence.

Uhuru Kenyatta

The president of the Supreme Court said the threats, as well as attacks against five other judges — some involving guns — would not be tolerated.

“Let no individual, group, candidate or supporter imagine that cowardly and dark acts such as these will cower us,” said Mutunga. “We have seen and overcome worse, and we will all soldier on for this country. None will be held hostage by a cabal of retrogrades.”

By UP