National Super Alliance (Nasa) leader Raila Odinga and his deputy Kalonzo Musyoka at a past event. [Photo|Nasa coalition]Two Kenyans have filed a petition against National Super Alliance (Nasa) leader Raila Odinga and his deputy Kalonzo Musyoka at the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in Netherlands.Martin Nkari, and Kenneth Otieno, want the court to investigate the two leaders over what they termed as “inflammatory conduct” and other crimes that fall within the jurisdiction of the court.The petitioners, who are the secretary and chairman of the International Policy Group (IPG), respectively, jointly instructed a Canadian law firm to formally ask ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to launch investigations into the Opposition leaders, citing cases of violence being witnessed by Nasa demonstrations against the electoral body, IEBC."On Friday, an intentionally recognised Canadian law firm, Watson Jacobs McCreary LLP, submitted papers to the court and they were formally received by Ms Patricia Castro, and then onto the Prosecutor’s office," reports the Standard.An ICC official confirmed receipt of the petition in an email sent on Friday at 4:41pm. The petition had been filed and registered under OTP-CR-322/17.In the petition, Nkari and Otieno, have listed “ethnic violence, mobilisation and profiling, rape, sexual and gender-based crimes, targeted aggression, violent utterances and constant call to violent demonstrations and call to arms” as the reasons behind their plea to the ICC.“If the prevailing volatile situation in Kenya does not get urgent attention and action from the ICC, we apprehend mass atrocities, ethnic profiling, violent ethnic mobilisation, mass displacement of persons, destruction of property, rape, sexual and gender-based crimes and complete breakdown in law and order in the period leading to the October 26 2017 election, during the election, and after the election,” their petition signed October 9, 2017, reads in part.They attached video clips and newspaper cuttings to support the case.

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