Kenyatta calls supreme court a ‘dictatorship’ ahead of second election
Nairobi — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Thursday the country’s supreme court staged a "coup" against the will of the people when it annulled his win in last month’s presidential election, his toughest rhetoric yet in the wake of the August 8 vote. His remarks came on the same day the election board announced the repeat election has been delayed until October 26. The president’s criticism comes as Kenya’s political temperature is heating up, reviving fears of political violence. Clashes killed around 1,200 people following a disputed 2007 presidential vote. "A coup in Kenya has just been done by the four people in the supreme court," Kenyatta said in a televised meeting with supporters, delivered mostly in Kiswahili. "[The court is saying] ‘numbers don’t matter, it is processes that matter.’" Immediately following the court’s surprise September 1 ruling to annul the vote, Kenyatta had called for calm and respect for the ruling — but he later started to criticise the court....
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