The Acting President

The deputy president of Kenya William Ruto took to his official new role as the acting president.  This comes after the president appointed him yesterday as he was heading to the ICC today for the status conference at The Hague based court in Netherlands. President Uhuru Kenyatta decided to delegate his duties as the president to his deputy so that he can attend his case hearing as Mr. Kenyatta and not the president of the republic of Kenya. The president in his speech said that, “To protect the sovereignty of the Republic of Kenya, I now take the extraordinary and unprecedented step of invoking Article 147(3) of the Constitution. I will shortly issue the legal instrument necessary to appoint Hon. William Ruto, the Deputy President, as Acting President while I attend the status conference at The Hague, in the Netherlands.”

 
Indeed it is an extraordinary moment in kenya and Africa at large as there has never been any president that has ever done what Uhuru Kenyatta did. The acting president will be in office as the president and deputy at the same time until when the president returns from Netherlands.

Acting president in his new office at Harambee house.