He said Kenyatta and his host, President Goodluck Jonathan, would discuss how to strengthen economic relationship between the two countries as well as the security challenges facing them
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Kenya’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Tom Amolo, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday
In a condolence message to President Goodluck Jonathan and the people of Nigeria, Kenyatta said the killing was a “heinous act of cowardice that targeted vulnerable children in their most innocent slumber
The 15-member Security Council was split seven members, including Russia and China, voted for a draft resolution to approve the move, while eight members, including France, the US and Britain, abstained
Two serving African presidents, Sudan and Kenya, have been accused of war crimes by the ICC. The President, who expressed Nigeria’s support for the existence of the ICC, said: “While the work of the International Criminal Court is immensely useful for the achievement of a world without crimes against humanity, genocide and other acts of impunity, it would be fair to say that in Africa today, the wave of democratization has engendered greater commitment to the rule of law and respect for fundamental human rights
Addressing the participants at the end of the 15th Extraordinary Summit of the AU, its Chairperson, Hailemariam Dessalegn, said this was in accordance with “national laws and international customary laws”
Opening the 15th Extraordinary session the Council in Addis Ababa, its Chairman and Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister, Tedros Adhanom, said the body was concerned about ICC’s failure to follow “certain laid down procedures in the application of justice on some African countries and Africans”
He called for support from Kenyan friends across the globe to deal with the situation, adding that terrorism is a global problem that requires global solution
President Jonathan and Nigeria join the rest of the world in condemning the atrocious, callous and abominable attack on defenceless Kenyans and foreign nationals at the Westgate Shopping Mall in the Kenyan capital
“The Kenyans have been crisscrossing Africa in search of support for their cause, even before their parliament voted to withdraw from the ICC,” an AU official said
Kenyatta is accused of orchestrating post-election ethnic violence in 2007, with the months of chaos leaving more than 1,000 people dead and displacing hundreds of thousands
Government sources revealed that Kenyatta or Vice President William Ruto would be special guest of honour at the big match
Jonathan applauded the call by Kenyatta’s closest rival for the Presidency, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, for his supporters to remain calm and eschew violence protests while he takes his complaints about the election results to the Kenyan Supreme Court
Kenyatta won with a little over 50 per cent of the votes cast while Odinga had 43.3 per cent