{UAH} Kenyan censors take TV off air in row over Raila Odinga’s presidential ceremony

Kenyan censors take TV off air in row over Raila Odinga's presidential ceremony

Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg

January 30 2018, 12:00pm, The Times

• Politics

Supporters of Raila Odinga gather in Uhuru Park for his 'swearing in' ceremonyBEN CURTIS/AP

Kenya took several television and radio stations off air today after they began to broadcast live coverage of an imitation presidential "swearing in" ceremony promised by the opposition leader Raila Odinga.

About 2,000 supporters of Mr Odinga's opposition coalition gathered at Uhuru Park in central Nairobi early today to watch the planned ceremony, but before senior party leaders arrived independent media stations were forced off air by government, they claimed.

Mr Odinga claims to have won August's presidential election, which was declared for the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta, but the result was then overturned by the supreme court amid claims of skulduggery and mishandling by the electoral commission.

A rerun was ordered, which Mr Odinga boycotted and Mr Kenyatta, 56, the son of Kenya's first post-independence…

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