Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang may now follow the ICC proceedings from home as the court delivers its verdict in their no-case-to-answer motion slated for April 5.
Ruto and Sang had been instructed to be physically present in court but they have since been excused.
The DP is unable to attend the proceedings at the Hague because President Uhuru Kenyatta will be out of the country at the time of the court proceedings.
The duo want their case terminated owing to insufficient evidence presented by the Office of The Prosecutor.
Ruto’s defence has since cited five reasons why their client should be acquitted of the charges against him, which range from the Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s failure to submit evidence of an organisation named, The Network, which was prime to its case.
Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan pointed out that Bensouda had failed to demonstrate that Ruto headed a multi-faceted network consisting of political, media, financial, tribal and military components whose core objective was to implement an organisational policy directed at evicting those within the Rift Valley in support of PNU.
According to Ruto’s lawyers the post-election violence was a natural reaction to speculations that the elections were rigged rather than an organised event that is attributed to the massive violence that erupted in the region..
On the other hand Sang’s lawyer, Katwa Kigen, contends that his client never had any role in the 2007-08 post-election violence.
The lawyer also dismissed the prosecution’s idea that a network was formed ahead of the 2007 elections to execute attacks in the Rift Valley region.