Kenyatta sworn in as president of Kenya
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in
for a second and final five-year term, a month after winning a bitterly
disputed election rerun marked by delays and boycott.
Several heads of states and tens of thousands of
his supporters attended the inauguration at a stadium in the capital,
Nairobi, on Tuesday.
Kenyatta, 55, won 98 percent of the votes cast in October's poll, which was boycotted by the main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, who alleged the poll wouldn't be free and fair.
The election was marked by a low turnout with only 38 percent of the
registered voters casting their ballot – 7.6 million of the 19.6 million
registered voters.
Last month's poll rerun occurred after the country's Supreme Court
annulled August's presidential election results citing "illegalities and
irregularities" with the voting process.
Meanwhile, the opposition coalition attempted to gather for a
"memorial rally" to honour the more than 50 people killed, mostly by
security forces, in four months of political violence.
Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller, reporting from Nairobi, said police
cordoned off the grounds where the opposition were planning to hold
their rally.
"Police have been out in force to prevent people from gathering and
have fired tear gas to disperse people trying to reach the grounds. The
local government has said the planned opposition rally is illegal,"
Miller said.
Kenyatta's inauguration comes after the Supreme Court validated his victory in last month's rerun election.
Kenyatta is the son of the east African country's founding father.
Source: Al Jazeera
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