{"id":3311,"date":"2017-08-15T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somalionlinemedia.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2017-08-15T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T06:36:49","slug":"uhuru-kenyatta-asks-poll-losers-to-follow-law-and-be-peaceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/?p=3311","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru Kenyatta asks poll losers to follow law and be peaceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDaily Nation:<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked all losers dissatisfied with the election outcome to take constitutional measures to get redress.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked police officers to exercise restraint and provide protection during peaceful and lawful protests as contained in the law by those not happy with the outcome of the August 8 polls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FRIENDSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He spoke at Harambee House on Monday where he met the Assumption of Office Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appeal to all those who have rejected the election outcome to realize that we are all Kenyans. I extend a hand of peace and friendship to them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are ready to offer protection during peaceful protections and those aggrieved should realize they do not need my permission or that of Jubilee to hold peaceful protests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He, however, issued a stern warning that the government will not tolerate any loss of lives and destruction of property as a result of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kenyatta further cautioned those looting and destroying property in some parts of the country, where post-election protests have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Kenyans are desiring to go back to their normal lives. They do not want violence demonstrations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IAAF CHAMPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also congratulated the athletics team that participated in the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kenyatta was declared winner in the August 8 presidential elections after he garnered 8,203,290 votes, representing 54.27 per cent of the votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>His closest challenger, Mr Raila Odinga of ODM, was second with 6,762,224 votes, according to the results released by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.<br \/>\nMr Odinga has rejected the outcome, saying the election was not fair and credible despite international observers giving it a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Nation: President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked all losers dissatisfied with the election outcome to take constitutional measures to get redress. He also asked police officers to exercise restraint and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[183],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-in-english"],"authors":[{"term_id":183,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"admin","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e2230b2cd869f5a19d3c243e4a0524af083a4461319b6a5e8449b027ba16c929?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faafitv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}