DP William Ruto at the AALCO event. [Photo/courtesy of DP Ruto Facebook page]
Kenya led in severely criticising the International Criminal Court while at the ongoing Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO) which was held in Nairobi.
They convinced member states that have not signed the Rome Statute to ratify the agreement to help fight impunity.
Deputy president, Ruto who was opening the forum, dismissed the court saying it did not serve its intended purpose any more.
This was immediately after AALCO General Secretary Kennedy Gastorn urged countries in Asia and Africa who are not signatories of the Rome Statute to join it.
Ruto told delegates from 47 countries who were AALCO member states that ICC was not serving justice anymore, especially in developing countries as it is expected but it is now ' a tool of global power politics'.
He told member states to look for ways that will allow them and other partners have more say in the international judicial system.
"Our experiences gave us cause to observe that this institution and similar ones have become tools of global power politics and do not deliver the justice that they were built to dispense," Ruto said.
Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta were indicted by the ICC but were later released after they won the case where they were accused of perpetrating the 2007/08 post election violence.