By Samuel Ssebuliba<\/p>\n
Hearing of the election petition by Kenya\u2019s opposition, the National Super Alliance (NASA) challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s re-election has kicked off.<\/p>\n
Lawyers have begun making oral submissions after rules of engagement were set during a pre-trial conference over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The lead counsel for the opposition NASA James Orengo was the first to present his submissions and he has been allotted 5 hours.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the opposition said it would hold night vigils outside the Supreme Court for seven days to push for election justice, but they were blocked by police.<\/p>\n
The hearing continues and a ruling by the seven-judge bench is expected by Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Samuel Ssebuliba Hearing of the election petition by Kenya\u2019s opposition, the National Super Alliance (NASA) challenging President Uhuru Kenyatta\u2019s re-election has kicked off. Lawyers have begun making oral submissions after rules of engagement were set during a pre-trial conference over the weekend. The lead counsel for the opposition NASA James Orengo was the first to present his submissions and he has been allotted 5 hours. Earlier, the opposition said it would hold night vigils outside the Supreme Court for seven days to push for election justice, but they were blocked by police. The hearing continues and a ruling by the seven-judge bench is expected by Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}