{"id":46618,"date":"2022-09-14T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-congratulates-kenyans-for-peaceful-transition\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:43:06","slug":"president-kagame-congratulates-kenyans-for-peaceful-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-congratulates-kenyans-for-peaceful-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame congratulates Kenyans for peaceful transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The swearing-in ceremony held on Tuesday 13th September 2022 at Moi International Stadium Kasarani in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya; brought together 20 Heads of State and other dignitaries from across the world.  <\/p>\n<p>President Kagame is among leaders who attended the colourful event during which the outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta handed over power instruments to his successor, Ruto. <\/p>\n<p>After attending the event, he sent congratulations to Kenyans for peaceful power noting that he looks forward to more collaboration between the two countries.     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pleasure to join Kenyans and other leaders at the inaugural ceremony and handing over power to my brother Williams Ruto by his predecessor former President Uhuru Kenyatta. Congratulations to both leaders and Kenyans for peaceful transition. Even more cooperation ahead!!\u201d he tweeted.  <\/p>\n<p>As he arrived in Kenya ahead of the power handover ceremony, Kagame held talks with Ruto. Following the discussions, Ruto expressed willingness to promote bilateral relations for the interests of both countries\u2019 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kenya and Rwanda have a long established relationship based not just on geography but mutual interests and long standing partnerships on economic and security issues. We will seek to build and expand our cooperation for the mutual benefit of the citizens of our countries,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto becomes the fifth Kenyan President since the country obtained Independence.<br \/>\nHe won the August 9 elections, with 50.4% votes over his rival Raila Odinga who obtained 48,9%.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga challenged election results and filed an appeal but ended in vain as the Supreme Court confirmed the victory of Ruto.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44163 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fcilmmiwyaybcps-1fa03-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame is among 20 Heads of State who attended the inauguration of William Ruto. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44162 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fcilmmoxoaihf44-69087-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame has congratulated Kenyans for peaceful power transition. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44164 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ruto-6.jpg\" alt=\"William Ruto swearing in as the new Kenyan President. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44165 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1663082904497.jpg\" alt=\"Former Kenyan President, Kenyatta handing over the instruments of power to Ruto. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has congratulated Kenyans for peaceful power transition following the inauguration of Kenya\u2019s new president, Dr. William Ruto.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46618"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46618"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}