{"id":31003,"date":"2017-09-01T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=31003"},"modified":"2017-09-01T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:04:24","slug":"kenyan-supreme-court-nullifies-election-of-uhuru-kenyatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kenyan-supreme-court-nullifies-election-of-uhuru-kenyatta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Supreme Court nullifies election of Uhuru Kenyatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court of Kenya has today ruled that Uhuru Kenyatta is not the validly elected president of the Republic of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan law makers have described the Supreme Court\u2019s invalidation of Kenyatta\u2019s presidency as an Indictment of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, which declared Kenyatta winner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31004\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31004 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/950e0be1-e130-4b80-a123-336f0ee4817f-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/950e0be1-e130-4b80-a123-336f0ee4817f-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/950e0be1-e130-4b80-a123-336f0ee4817f-320x200.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/950e0be1-e130-4b80-a123-336f0ee4817f.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Raila Odinga with part of his legal team<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The petition filed by NASA candidate Raila Odinga in the aftermath of the August 8<sup>th<\/sup> polls hinged on three issues:\u00a0 whether elections were conducted in accordance with the laws, whether there were Irregularities and illegalities during the whole process and the Integrity of the process.<\/p>\n<p>While reading the determination, The Chief Justice David Maraga said that these four out of six judges agreed that these irregularities affected the integrity of the whole process. One judge was indisposed.<\/p>\n<p>Elections will be held within 60 days in accordance with Kenya\u2019s electoral laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court of Kenya has today ruled that Uhuru Kenyatta is not the validly elected president of the Republic of Kenya. Kenyan law makers have described the Supreme Court\u2019s invalidation of Kenyatta\u2019s presidency as an Indictment of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, which declared Kenyatta winner. The petition filed by NASA candidate Raila Odinga in the aftermath of the August 8th polls hinged on three issues:\u00a0 whether elections were conducted in accordance with the laws, whether there were Irregularities and illegalities during the whole process and the Integrity of the process. While reading the determination, The Chief Justice David Maraga said that these four out of six judges agreed that these irregularities affected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30690,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}