{"id":32395,"date":"2017-11-28T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32395"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:08:00","slug":"uhuru-kenyatta-sworn-in-for-a-second-term-as-president-of-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uhuru-kenyatta-sworn-in-for-a-second-term-as-president-of-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya at a ceremony in the capital, Nairobi, boycotted by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony took place in a packed stadium with police driving back other Kenyatta supporters trying to get in without seats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32410 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/464E0A3F00000578-0-image-a-1_1510577823685-1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/464E0A3F00000578-0-image-a-1_1510577823685-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/464E0A3F00000578-0-image-a-1_1510577823685-1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Riot police were also deployed in another part of the city to stop a rally by opposition supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition leader Raila Odinga mocked Mr Kenyatta&#8217;s inauguration calling it a&#8221;coronation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He boycotted the re-run of the presidential poll last month and says Mr Kenyatta was not elected legitimately.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kenyatta was officially re-elected with 98% of the vote on 26 October but just under 39% of voters turned out.<\/p>\n<p>The original election on 8 August was held over again after being annulled by the Supreme Court on grounds of irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are among a number of African leaders attending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya at a ceremony in the capital, Nairobi, boycotted by the opposition. The ceremony took place in a packed stadium with police driving back other Kenyatta supporters trying to get in without seats. Riot police were also deployed in another part of the city to stop a rally by opposition supporters. Opposition leader Raila Odinga mocked Mr Kenyatta&#8217;s inauguration calling it a&#8221;coronation&#8221;. He boycotted the re-run of the presidential poll last month and says Mr Kenyatta was not elected legitimately. Mr Kenyatta was officially re-elected with 98% of the vote on 26 October but just under 39% of voters turned out. The original election on 8 August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32409,"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-32395","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\/32395"}],"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=32395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}