{"id":9065,"date":"2022-09-14T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2022-09-14T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T08:56:12","slug":"chebukati-thanks-president-william-ruto-for-recognizing-his-efforts-in-enhancing-the-countrys-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=9065","title":{"rendered":"Chebukati thanks President William Ruto for recognizing his efforts in enhancing the country\u2019s democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the third time on Tuesday, President Ruto lauded Chebukati as an exemplary civil servant who \u201cstood firm and delivered credible polls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is appropriate to single out for special mention Chebukati for standing firm, resisting bribery, intimidation, and blackmail, and doing the right thing,\u201d Ruto said during his speech after being inaugurated as Kenya\u2019s fifth President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ruto hailed Chebukati as an exemplary performer who resisted the temptation of subverting the people\u2019s will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chebukati thanked the Head of State for acknowledging his role \u201cfor raising the bar on integrity and the standards of public service in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel proud to have contributed to strengthening democracy in Kenya. God bless,\u201d Chebukati said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chebukati had previously alleged that he had been offered a significant bribe to interfere with the August polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The electoral body boss also thanked his colleagues\u2019 Commissioners Abdi Guliye, Boya Molo, the agency\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Hussein Marjan, and the commission\u2019s staff for delivering credible polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chebukati also thanked his family, who stood by him during the electioneering period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chair-iebc-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chair-iebc-1.png 629w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chair-iebc-1-480x278.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 629px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third time on Tuesday, President Ruto lauded Chebukati as an exemplary civil servant who \u201cstood firm and delivered credible polls.\u201d \u201cIt is appropriate to single out for special mention Chebukati for standing firm, resisting bribery, intimidation, and blackmail, and doing the right thing,\u201d Ruto said during his speech after being inaugurated as Kenya\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chair-iebc.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}