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President John Mahama has endorsed the International Criminal Court�s (ICC) withdrawal of charges against Kenya�s President Uhuru Kenyatta. Prosecutors at the ICC in The Hague last week dropped charges of crimes-against-humanity leveled against President Kenyatta. The Kenyan President had been indicted in connection with the post-election ethnic violence in that country in 2007, in which about 1,200 people died. Uhuru Kenyatta, who was elected President in 2013 denied orchestrating the violence. In a three-day state visit to Kenya, President Mahama congratulated the Kenyan President for the charges dropped. �I applaud the recent decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop the charges that had been brought against you my brother,� he said. He said the charges that have been dropped �takes us back to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah saying that we [Africans] prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility and it is in this spirit of daring determination of the African people to be the controllers of their own destiny.� President Mahama�s remarks also follows a call by the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni that African nations must pull out of the treaty establishing the ICC, amid accusations that it unfairly targets Africans. Touching again on Ghana�s relationship with Kenya, President Mahama said it was a privilege for him to be given the opportunity to �rekindle the lights that led us and our people to freedom as sovereign nations.� According to him, the founding fathers of Kenya and Ghana, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah respectively, shared a brotherhood which �preceded and ultimately led to the liberation of our continent.� President Mahama recommended that the ideals and beliefs of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Mzee Kenyatta must not be ignored.