{"id":7006,"date":"2023-04-01T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sasanews.co.ke\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2023-04-01T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T17:32:54","slug":"uhuru-come-out-and-denounce-azimio-coalition-wetangula-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/uhuru-come-out-and-denounce-azimio-coalition-wetangula-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru come out and denounce Azimio Coalition, Wetangula says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7009 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FspEKfXWIAE18Lw.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has urged retired President Uhuru Kenyatta to speak out against the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>Wetangula noted that \u201cthe conspiracy of silence\u201d by the former President was detrimental and that he should do the honorable thing and publicly advocate for peace. \u201cYou should be the number one elder statesman in Kenya who can call the country to order when things are going wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Head of State who is the Chairperson of the Azimio Council has in recent months been under fire from a section of Kenya Kwanza leaders who accuse him of sponsoring the Azimio protests.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Wetangula challenged Kenya\u2019s fifth President to make his position known and cement his legacy as a peace ambassador. \u201cHistory will judge you harshly if you fail to act and that is not good for you my brother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former President\u2019s alleged involvement with the Azimio rallies prompted some goons to invade his family\u2019s land situated along the Eastern bypass on March 27, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>President Kenyatta continues to keep a low profile despite acknowledging that Odinga is still his party leader.<\/p>\n<p>Capital FM<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has urged retired President Uhuru Kenyatta to speak out against the Azimio La Umoja One Kenya anti-government protests. Wetangula noted that \u201cthe conspiracy of silence\u201d by the former President was detrimental and that he should do the honorable thing and publicly advocate for peace. \u201cYou should be the number one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance-and-opinion","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7010,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/7010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenyaleo.co.ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}