Kenya’s opposition leader is ‘sworn in’ as so-called people’s president
Nairobi — Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has sworn an oath of office declaring himself the so-called people’s president in a ceremony that failed to comply with the country’s constitution and risked deepening the fraught political divisions in the East African nation. Odinga read the oath in the presence of Adv Tom Kajwang, an opposition lawmaker, instead of being administered the pledge by the country’s chief or deputy chief justice, as required by the constitution. Kalonzo Musyoka, the National Super Alliance’s (NASA) candidate for deputy president, and co-principal leader Musalia Mudavadi didn’t attend the ceremony. "I thank you for the respect you’ve shown by turning up for today’s ceremony," Odinga told thousands of cheering supporters at Uhuru Park on the fringe of Nairobi’s central business district. "Today is a historic day in Kenya. Kenyans have taken a step [to get] rid of a dictatorship that came through vote rigging." Treason threat Kenya’s government had threaten...
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