KENYA: President elect Uhuru Kenyatta receives official certificate

Record ID: 362533

  • Title: KENYA: President elect Uhuru Kenyatta receives official certificate
  • Date: 9th March 2013
  • Summary: NAIROBI, KENYA (MARCH 9, 2013) (REUTERS) KENYAN PRESIDENT ELECT, UHURU KENYATTA, WALKING DOWN STEPS IN ELECTION CENTRE, SUPPORTERS CHEERING VARIOUS OF KENYATTA WALKING THROUGH CROWDS, SHAKING HANDS KENYATTA, HIS WIFE MARGARET KENYATTA, AND UHURU KENYATTA'S DEPUTY ELECT WILLIAM RUTO, STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER, SINGING KENYATTA AND HIS WIFE MARGARET SEATED NEXT TO EACH OTH
  • Embargoed: 24th March 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Kenya
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAC0WMBS72VXIT52Q5U246YAPZ2
  • Story Text: Uhuru Kenyatta, indicted for crimes against humanity, was declared winner of Kenya's presidential election on Saturday (March 9).
    Kenyatta, Kenya's richest man and son of Kenya's founding president, faces trial after the disputed 2007 presidential vote that unleashed a wave of tribal killings. His win avoided what could have been a divisive run-off pencilled in for April.
    With 51-year-old Kenyatta in the top job, Kenya will become the second African country after Sudan to have a sitting president indicted by the International Criminal Court.
    After saying Kenyatta secured 50.07 percent of the vote, edging over the 50 percent needed to avoid a second round, the chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Issack Hassan, handed a certificate of the results to Kenyatta.
    "The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) certifies that the candidate who has been duly elected the president of the Republic of Kenya under the provisions of article 138 of the constitution in the presidential elections held on Fourth March 2013 is Uhuru Kenyatta," he said.
    Kenyatta thanked him and went to a nearby university campus in the capital where he delivered his acceptance speech.
    Rival Raila Odinga said he would challenge the outcome in court and asked supporters to avoid violence.
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