{"id":49538,"date":"2023-12-18T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/democratic-principles-prevail-ruto-s-response-to-diplomatic-strife-with-dr\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:24:56","slug":"democratic-principles-prevail-ruto-s-response-to-diplomatic-strife-with-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/democratic-principles-prevail-ruto-s-response-to-diplomatic-strife-with-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic principles prevail: Ruto&#8217;s response to diplomatic strife with DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response, the Congolese government demanded the arrest of these individuals. However, Kenya declined to comply, leading to the recall of the Congolese Ambassador, John Nyakeru, from Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto, addressing the situation on Sunday, emphasized that Kenya, as a democracy, does not arrest individuals for making statements. <\/p>\n<p>He stated, &#8220;Kenya is a democracy; we cannot arrest anybody who has issued a statement. We don\u2019t arrest people who have made a statement; we arrest criminals. If anybody has committed any crime, we will go out of our way to deal with them.&#8221; Ruto highlighted the essence of freedom of expression within a democratic framework. <\/p>\n<p>In response to DR Congo&#8217;s recall of its ambassador, Ruto acknowledged it as their right but reiterated Kenya&#8217;s commitment to upholding democratic principles, maintaining that the country cannot arrest individuals for expressing their opinions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-62183\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gftr-3.jpg\" alt=\"President Ruto, addressing the situation on Sunday, emphasized that Kenya, as a democracy, does not arrest individuals for making statements. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan President William Ruto has addressed the recent diplomatic discord with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) arising from his government&#8217;s decision not to arrest self-identified Congolese dissidents. The dissidents, including Corneille Nangaa, the former head of DR Congo&#8217;s electoral body, declared the formation of the &#8220;Congo River Alliance (AFC),&#8221; last week comprising nine rebel groups during a press conference in Nairobi.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000062182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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":{"id":2000062182,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fs9jh7axsaait-o-0c234.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fs9jh7axsaait-o-0c234.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fs9jh7axsaait-o-0c234.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fs9jh7axsaait-o-0c234.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fs9jh7axsaait-o-0c234.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/fs9jh7axsaait-o-0c234.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49538","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=49538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000062182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49538"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49538"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}