Kenya’s President Elect will be arrested if he dares step on Botswana soil, a foreign affairs Minister of the Southern Africa country has warned.
Botswana has said Kenya President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta is not welcome in the country if he refuses to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“If he refuses to go (to The Hague), then we have a problem. That means that they do not know the rule of law. You can’t establish a court and refuse to go when it calls you. If he refuses, he won’t set foot here,” Botswana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Phandu Skelemani told local press.
The ICC has charged Mr Kenyatta with crimes against humanity for bearing the greatest responsibility for the post election violence in which 1,133 people died and 650,000 were displaced.
He is due to stand trial on July 9.
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