{"id":17622,"date":"2025-04-29T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17622"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:06:12","slug":"speaker-amason-kingi-dismisses-claims-of-issuing-ultimatum-to-raila-odinga-as-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17622","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Amason Kingi Dismisses Claims of Issuing Ultimatum to Raila Odinga as Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SPEAKER-AMASON-KINGI-e1728475766832.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SPEAKER-AMASON-KINGI-e1728475766832.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SPEAKER-AMASON-KINGI-e1728475766832-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 630px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has dismissed as false reports circulating on social media suggesting that he issued an ultimatum to Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga over his political position regarding the government<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a post on his official X (formerly Twitter) account, Speaker Kingi labelled as fake a viral news card that alleged he had called on Odinga to &#8220;stop political con games&#8221; and clearly declare his stance on working with the Kenya Kwanza administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clarification comes after a recent speech Kingi made in Siaya on Sunday, where he urged Kenyans to stop criticising Odinga and instead acknowledge his pivotal role in shaping Kenya\u2019s democratic space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people on social media are criticising Raila Amollo Odinga, but if you study Kenya&#8217;s history, the kind of political space we are enjoying today, the kind of democracy we are enjoying as a country\u2014were it not for him\u2014we wouldn&#8217;t be here today,&#8221; Kingi remarked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Speaker Amason Kingi has dismissed as false reports circulating on social media suggesting that he issued an ultimatum to Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga over his political position regarding the government Through a post on his official X (formerly Twitter) account, Speaker Kingi labelled as fake a viral news card that alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17623,"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-17622","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\/2025\/04\/SPEAKER-AMASON-KINGI-e1728475766832.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17622","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=17622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17624,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17622\/revisions\/17624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}