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The Leader of opposition in parliament Mathias Mpuuga has commended Kenya for holding a peaceful election and calls for the same to prevail even after the president-elect has been sworn-in.<\/p>\n
Last evening the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, IEBC\u00a0chair Wafula Chebukati declared\u00a0Kenya Kwanza\u2019s William Ruto as\u00a0Kenya\u2019s\u00a0fifth president after\u00a0he garnered 50.49% of the total\u00a0votes cast against his closest contender Ralia Odinga\u2019s 48.8%.<\/p>\n
Speaking to KFM, Mpuuga says despite the split in the electoral commission, Kenyans have exhibited\u00a0a\u00a0high degree of maturity in this month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n
He also expresses confidence in the Kenyan court to independently deal with any petition and challenges that may arise from the August 9th<\/sup>\u00a0general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Leader of opposition in parliament Mathias Mpuuga has commended Kenya for holding a peaceful election and calls for the same to prevail even after the president-elect has been sworn-in. Last evening the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, IEBC\u00a0chair Wafula Chebukati declared\u00a0Kenya Kwanza\u2019s William Ruto as\u00a0Kenya\u2019s\u00a0fifth president after\u00a0he garnered 50.49% of the total\u00a0votes cast against his closest contender Ralia Odinga\u2019s 48.8%. Speaking to KFM, Mpuuga says despite the split in the electoral commission, Kenyans have exhibited\u00a0a\u00a0high degree of maturity in this month\u2019s election. He also expresses confidence in the Kenyan court to independently deal with any petition and challenges that may arise from the August 9th\u00a0general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":47882,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-57635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kenya-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57635"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}