{"id":3942,"date":"2010-02-15T13:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:54:36","slug":"kenya-president-mwai-kibaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/kenya-president-mwai-kibaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya president Mwai Kibaki calls ministers&#8217; suspensions illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenyan-president.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3943\" title=\"Kenya president calls ministers' suspensions illegal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenyan-president-280x188.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya president calls ministers' suspensions illegal\" width=\"280\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenyan-president-280x188.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenyan-president-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenyan-president.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki s<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong>ays he was not consulted about the suspension of two ministers over suspected corruption and called the move unconstitutional, a statement from his office said Monday.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOn Sunday Kenya&#8217;s Prime Minister Raila Odinga suspended for three months and &#8220;with immediate effect&#8221; Agriculture Minister William Ruto and Education Minister Samuel Ongeri so that they can be investigated for corruption, a statement from Odinga&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga said two recent investigations &#8212; one into a subsidised maize scam and the other into the disappearance of funds at the education ministry &#8212; had &#8220;laid credible foundations for the two ministers to be investigated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the president has challenged that decision, saying that &#8220;the legal provisions on which the Prime Minister acted, do not confer him the authority to cause a minister to vacate his or her office,&#8221; the statement from Kibaki&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the country&#8217;s constitution, &#8220;the Office of a Minister can only become vacant if the President so directs,&#8221; the Kibaki statement continued, concluding: &#8220;Therefore constitutionally, the two ministers remain in office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 4)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki says he was not consulted about the suspension of two ministers over suspected corruption and called the move unconstitutional, a statement from his office said Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,118],"tags":[5018,5019,5021,5020,5017,5016],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-hot","tag-agriculture-minister-william-ruto","tag-education-minister-samuel-ongeri","tag-kenyan-mwai-kibaki","tag-kenyan-president-mwai-kibaki","tag-prime-minister-raila-odinga","tag-raila-odinga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}