{"id":14998,"date":"2024-06-03T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2024-06-03T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:39:05","slug":"president-ruto-warns-against-ethnic-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=14998","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT RUTO WARNS AGAINST ETHNIC POLITICS."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>President William Ruto has issued a stern warning to Kenyan leaders against using ethnic politics while trying to seek support from the public. He added that ethnic divisions will only backtrack the country&#8217;s progress . He promised to not allow the nation to go back into the past mentioning the 2007-2008 post- election violence that was caused by tribal fights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/images-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14999\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-ilt=\"1717421851156\" class=\"sFlh5c pT0Scc\" style=\"max-width: 800px; position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwKTq_pSLZuIV9roYmxwyuFVBSFBIlGsfkfQ&amp;s\" alt=\"Kenya at 60: President William Ruto's full Madaraka Day speech - The  Standard Health\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He also asserted that his government will ensure equal share of development in every region to ensure national unity and cohesion.<\/strong><em> <\/em><strong>He urged the elected leaders not to sleep in their jobs rather than to work towards the collective good of all Kenyans and to promote development in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He firmly stated that he his devoted to promote development and there is no room for tribal politics in his government. The president&#8217;s remarks come from growing concerns over the escalating ethnic tensions in the country caused by said fall out between him and the deputy president Rigathi Gachagua.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto has issued a stern warning to Kenyan leaders against using ethnic politics while trying to seek support from the public. He added that ethnic divisions will only backtrack the country&#8217;s progress . He promised to not allow the nation to go back into the past mentioning the 2007-2008 post- election violence that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/images-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15000,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}