{"id":102503,"date":"2024-11-16T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/uhuru-steers-off-ruto-gachagua-acrimony-urges-respect-and-peace\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:02:56","slug":"uhuru-steers-off-ruto-gachagua-acrimony-urges-respect-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uhuru-steers-off-ruto-gachagua-acrimony-urges-respect-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru steers off Ruto-Gachagua acrimony, urges respect and peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 16 \u2013 Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has implored politicians to shun tribal politics and focus on uniting Kenyans urging the political class to shun dividing the country along tribal lines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Former President who has shied from local public forums since his preferred successor Raila Odinga lost in the 2022 general elections made appearance during the installation of Rt. Reverend Peter Kimani as Embu Diocese Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amidst the removal of Rigathi Gachagua as the Deputy President with allegations amounting to tribalism over \u2018shareholder narrative\u2019 having been upheld among five charges that edged him out of office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to say that am in agreement with what the Deputy President Kindiki Kithure has said.Lets pray for peace, harmony between leaders and the people,\u201d Uhuru stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs leaders and love each other, we are all Kenyans and we will not prosper when we are divided and are attacking each other with words,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Former President who retired from local politics in 2022 after completing his two presidential terms steered off from politics even as his political backyard reels from Gachagua\u2019s impeachment as the Deputy President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have a lot to say nowadays ,I don\u2019t have a lot of stories. I just watch tv and listen to radio,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyatta hinged on the clarion call from the Catholic leaders for the government to respect the electorate saying any disdain by the elected leaders to the public is unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Bishops have said, let the leaders respect the people and they will revert the respect,\u201d the Former President said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Nov 16 \u2013 Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has implored politicians to shun tribal politics and focus on uniting Kenyans urging the political class to shun dividing the country along tribal lines. The Former President who has shied from local public forums since his preferred successor Raila Odinga lost in the 2022 general elections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}