Internally Displaced Persons in Nyanza region have hailed the International Criminal Court (ICC) for dropping the charges against Deputy President William Ruto.
The IDPs network chairman Nelson Owegi said Ruto and Radio Journalist Joshua Arap Sang ought to have been left off the hook long time ago.
“As IDPs, we had lost faith in the case long time ago and wondered why ICC had to keep the cases of these two people,” he said.
Mr Owegi said they are suffering and the ICC case was not going to help them in any way.
He asked the Deputy President to visit Nyanza since ICC has dropped the charges so that he can help them build their lives a fresh.
“Now that the DP is a free man, I want to appeal to him to visit Nyanza and help resettle thousands of IDPs who were forgotten,” he said.
Addressing a press conference in Kisumu on Tuesday, Owegi faulted the ICC Prosecution for doing shoddy investigations into the post election violence cases.
He said the Prosecution failed to visit some areas that were hard hit with the violence to collect a water tight statement from the victims.
“The Prosecution is to blame for the collapse of the cases. There is no way you can conduct a shoddy investigation and hope to nail somebody,” he said.
Owegi noted that Ruto cannot be made to pay for a case that had flopped and thanked ICC for dropping the charges.