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'International criminal court gave me Sh200m to testify against President Uhuru Kenyatta'

By Karanja Njoroge, Alex Wakhisi and Wilkister Alao Updated Thursday, January 22nd 2015 at 00:00 GMT +3

Kenya: A former MP mentioned in the just released evidence against President Uhuru Kenyatta by the ICC prosecution has claimed he was approached to testify against the President with an offer of Sh200 million.


Former Nakuru Town MP David Manyara, who in the evidence released by ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is accused of being Uhuru's co-ordinator in Nakuru and buying pangas and guns for distribution to Mungiki, said ICC officials on several occasions approached him to testify against him.

Terming the allegations as fabrications, Manyara said the prosecution officials started with an offer of Sh20 million and kept increasing upto Sh200 million. " ICC officials approached me on several occasions and attempted to lure me with millions of money to testify against Uhuru but I declined. This is the reason they had to fabricate the lies against me. 

Why did they want me to be a prosecution witness?" said Manyara.
The former Nakuru town MP dismissed the allegations that he had links with the outlawed Mungiki sect and that he went around the town with a loud speaker warning non- Kikuyus to leave during the violence.

"I was arrested in connection with those allegations but was acquitted by a local court due to lack of evidence. The ICC instead of trying to establish the truth opted to rely on rumours and fabricated evidence by the civil society," he told a press conference in Nakuru town.

Former Naivasha MP John Mututho also termed as nonsensical the attempt by ICC to link him with the violence in Naivasha town, saying he offered refuge to many victims at his home.

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The former MP, who is the Chairman of the National Authority for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse(Nacada), said he played a major role in ending the violence in Naivasha.
"The ICC was fed with lies by economic opportunists, who were capitalising on its ignorance and never bothered to verify what transpired," he added.

Mututho said it was unbelievable that ICC could claim they planned the violence together with his bitter political rival Jayne Kihara.
Manyara said his chief campaigners during his stint as Nakuru Town MP were Luos and he had no reason to plan to attack them as claimed by the ICC prosecutor.

POLITICAL MOVE

Separately, the Rift Valley Council of Elders said the decision to make the evidence public even after the case had collapsed proves the ICC trials are political as long suspected.