Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second and final five-year term, a month after winning a bitterly disputed election rerun marked by delays and boycott.

Several heads of states and tens of thousands of his supporters attended the inauguration at a stadium in the capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday.

Kenyatta, 55, won 98 percent of the votes cast in October’s poll, which was boycotted by the main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, who alleged the poll wouldn’t be free and fair.

The election was marked by a low turnout with only 38 percent of the registered voters casting their ballot – 7.6 million of the 19.6 million registered voters.

Last month’s poll rerun occurred after the country’s Supreme Court annulled August’s presidential election results citing “illegalities and irregularities” with the voting process.

Meanwhile, the opposition coalition attempted to gather for a “memorial rally” to honour the more than 50 people killed, mostly by security forces, in four months of political violence.

Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller, reporting from Nairobi, said police cordoned off the grounds where the opposition were planning to hold their rally.

“Police have been out in force to prevent people from gathering and have fired tear gas to disperse people trying to reach the grounds. The local government has said the planned opposition rally is illegal,” Miller said.

Kenyatta’s inauguration comes after the Supreme Court validated his victory in last month’s rerun election.

Kenyatta is the son of the east African country’s founding father.

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ride on sir

Aonkuuse:
ride on sir

Lalasticlala

55?? He's still young compared to our own Buhari... Congrats to him though.

Lol, 5 years

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ibibiofirstlady:
Lalasticlala

Babe you are just making fp back to back

C

After all d struggle by d opposition party, Kenyatta still won... Anyway he owns Kenya just as d name Kenya ----- Kenyatta

Congratulations to President Uhuru Kenyatta and to the good people of Kenya.

.weldon sir

Kenya is better than Nigeria .
Nigeria may be richer but Kenya has a better system and structure.
Argue with your shadow

Uhuru way dey make beat

Nobleking2000:
C

for cup

DESPOT

Generalkaycee:
55?? He's still young compared to our own Buhari... Congrats to him though.

Will u stop this nonsense.. enough of this old young thing.

Is not about age is about competence..!

This is how a president should look like. Not our own that looks like a living dead.

Amarabae:
Kenya is better than Nigeria . Nigeria may be richer but Kenya has a better system and structure. Argue with your shadow

I agree with you 1trillion times

...this guy is not behaving like his grand father Jumo Kenyatta

Uhuru has no business being president
He rigged the previous election...
Rila suppose win this elections if it was fair, the reason he failed to contest..
Shame on u Kenyatta ..

Die by FIRE

Swanzi:


Will u stop this nonsense.. enough of this old young thing.

Is not about age is about competence..!

cremedelacreme:
This is how a president should look like. Not our own that looks like a living dead.

Shut up with ur whining was Jonathan
Any better..?
When will u people get it that is not about looks is about your ability .

kkk

Mehn.....na trouble be this ooh

I love d name "Uhuru" freedom

Amarabae:
Kenya is better than Nigeria .
Nigeria may be richer but Kenya has a better system and structure.
Argue with your shadow

Very true as I don't get to live with the irritating sound of a generator in Nairobi!

mikool007:
for cup

Cup for drinking

epospiky:

I just heard that Raila Odinga is planning to perform a his own swearing-in ceremony with a view to setting up a parallel government. The old guy is gradually showing some craziness.