The austerity measures have also hit the devolved county assemblies and President Uhuru Kenyatta's monthly pay packet has shrunk from $16 000 to $14 000...
Vol 58 No 24 |
- ISRAEL
- AFRICA
Netanyahu used his presence as guest of honour and speaker at the inauguration banquet for President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi on 28 November to further his diplomatic offensive...
He wanted President Uhuru Kenyatta to step down immediately 'since his tenure legally expired on 1 November' (the date by which the Supreme Court wanted a repeat election held) and demanded that his government be replaced by 'an interim government of shared power between Nasa and Uhuru's Jubilee administration'...
In his brief address as he was declared winner of the re-run presidential election of 26 October President Uhuru Kenyatta said that he would await the definitive ruling by the Kenya Supreme Court as he knew there would be petitions against his victory...
Neither President Uhuru Kenyatta nor Vice-President William Ruto attended the 2016 or 2017 annual devolution conferences...
Taking a shot at his opponents for representing the 'politics of darkness' and accusing them of double standards President Uhuru Kenyatta used his victory speech on 30 October to assert his legitimacy with a barrage of voting statistics...
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Surely no president can look on a 98% majority with as much dismay as President Uhuru Kenyatta...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to sign it...
On this issue there is stark disagreement between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga...
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When Kenya's Supreme Court voided the election of President Uhuru Kenyatta by four to two it became the first-ever African court to unseat a sitting president and only the third anywhere in the world to do so (AC Vol 58 No 18 The next trial of strength)...
His chosen successor the youthful Uhuru Kenyatta son of the first president was decisively defeated by the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) an alliance of the 'Rainbow Coalition' of KANU defectors around Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka and George Saitoti and the 'National Alliance' of Mwai Kibaki Charity Ngilu and Kijana Wamalwa which – through Kibaki's Democratic Party - had been the enduring centre of political opposition to KANU since 1991...