Speaking to journalists before leaving for The Hague, Mr William Samoei arap Ruto said that he had requested for a meeting with Mr Ocampo to record a statement with the ICC over his alleged involvement in the violence. “I asked for an appointment with Ocampo and his group so that we can set the record straight and get to the truth and I’m happy that they gave me the appointment.”, said Mr Ruto.

Ruto has been mentioned adversely by different human rights groups over the violence. Kenya's government-funded human rights watchdog Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) had implicated him and other politicians in the violence that saw over 1,300 Kenyans lose their lives, and over 700,000 other routed out of their homes.

The Commission of Investigation into the Post Election Violence that was formed to unearth the truth the violence based its report on the KNCHR report. Ruto and other politicians have since moved to court to have their named expunged from the report, but the court dismissed their cases, owing to the fact that the commission has since been presented to the ICC, and the ICC is not under the Kenyan judicial jurisdiction.

Before his departure, Ruto confirmed to the press that he was indeed the prominent politician who had written a letter to Mr Ocampo volunteering to turn himself in if implicated. Ocampo had a few weeks ago told the media that a prominent politician had written to him and offered to surrender if he was implicated.

He also disclosed that he (Ruto) was one of the ten prominent politicians to whom Ocampo wrote to asking them to meet him because they were adversely mentioned in the CIPEV report. It was on this premise, he said, that he wrote a letter to Ocampo offering to meet him and write a statement.

Ruto was preceded to The Hague by his lawyers Katwa Kigen and Dr Kindiki Kithure, who had left before him to layout the ground for his meeting with Ocampo. He was accompanied to the Hague by his friend, Charles Keter, also a legislator from his Rift Valley County.

Until his suspension, Ruto was the in charge of the Higher Education docket. He was dropped after he was mentioned in a corruption case. The case is still pending.