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Malawi Government says Malawi is making positive steps in domesticating the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“We are implementing the Statutes by incorporating some of the provisions in our laws and that’s implementation. We will continue to do that until such a time that we know that look, we have done most of what we wanted to do.” said Samuel Tembenu Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs,
Tembenu was responding amid concerns from Malawi Law Society and Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) that although Malawi ratified and signed the Rome Statutes of the ICC in 1999, little implementation has been made to domesticate some provisions.
Secretary General for Malawi Law Society Khumbo Bonzoe Soko said in an interview that due to delays in domestication, Malawi has no Procedural Law that helps local courts to execute prosecution or make arrests of those that are wanted by the ICC.
On procedural laws Tembenu said “That’s not true, because it is not just a procedure it’s just an obligation where every member is obligated to do what they have undertaken to do.”
Asked about readiness of the country to arrest anyone wanted by ICC he said “That’s a thing that will happen at a right time”
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