The government of Kenya has authorized the release of funds for the implementation of free secondary education for its country’s citizens.
The sum of Sh 37bn (about $357,790,000) was released just a day after schools reopened across the country, fulfilling a pledge made during the election campaign by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has won a disputed runoff elections which was boycotted by the opposition and is likely to face another legal challenge.
Kenyatta garnered 98% of the total votes cast, although the figure is tampered by the fact that the opposition leader Raila Odinga boycotted the polls and instructed his supporters not to vote.
Kenya has made history today as its Supreme Court has annulled the results of the recently held Presidential elections and called for new polls to be held.
In the landmark ruling, the Court held up the arguments of the opposition that the election was tampered with and the will of the people changed.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared winner of the Kenyan Presidential elections after a few days of tension and mixed announcements.
Since Tuesday’s election, both the opposition and government had expressed immense confidence of winning the polls, and the protracted certification of results have raised tensions in the country and in some areas, degenerated into violence.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has appeared in a music video alongside the popular Kenyan dance crew FBI, in which the President coolly does the dab.
Dancing along with members of the group to the song “Bamba Kura Yako” – the video is a media strategy aimed at getting young people more involved in the political process.
Kenyans have been on social media taking the piss out of their President, Uhuru Kenyatta, ever since he commissioned the construction of a footbridge in Mombasa last week.
Mr Kenyatta faces reelection in August and according to Kenyans, he has become a little too fond of launching projects up and down the country, even ones that do not deserve Presidential attention.
Similar to what is going on in Ghana now; after Kenya’s president election, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who got 43.31% of the vote challenged Uhuru Kenyatta’s 50.07% victory. Sitting on the case day and night, the Kenya’s Supreme Court today ruled to uphold Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory, dismissing Raila Odinga’s challenge. CNN Reports; The Kenyan Supreme … Read more
