{"id":91142,"date":"2023-04-29T19:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently"},"modified":"2023-04-29T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T19:54:59","slug":"ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently","title":{"rendered":"Ruto to new KDF leadership: Serve Kenyans diligently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>President William Ruto has urged the leadership of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to uphold the integrity of the military. He asked the newly-appointed team to uphold the Constitution and serve Kenyans without bias.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenya has a tradition of a diligent, professional and outstanding military.\u201d President Ruto said he will call upon the armed forces to support other agencies to advance the country\u2019s transformation agenda.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks on Saturday during the swearing-in of General Francis Ogolla as the Chief of the Defence Forces of the Kenya Defence Forces at State House, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The President exuded confidence in General Ogolla as he takes over from General Robert Kibochi following his retirement. \u201cI am confident that you [General Ogolla] merit the Office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Jonah Mwangi was also sworn in as the Vice Chief of the Defence Forces. Prior to his promotion and appointment, Lieutenant General Mwangi was the Vice Chancellor of the National Defence University &#8211; Kenya. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, Cabinet Secretaries Aden Duale (Defence) and Kindiki Kithure (Interior) were present.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. President William Ruto has urged the leadership of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to uphold the integrity of the military. He asked the newly-appointed team to uphold the Constitution and serve Kenyans without bias. \u201cKenya has a tradition of a diligent, professional and outstanding military.\u201d President Ruto said he will call upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-91142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ruto to new KDF leadership: Serve Kenyans diligently - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President William Ruto has urged the leadership of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to uphold the integrity of the militar ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruto to new KDF leadership: Serve Kenyans diligently\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President William Ruto has urged the leadership of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to uphold the integrity of the militar ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-29T19:45:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-29T19:54:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1682781334.63.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ruto to new KDF leadership: Serve Kenyans diligently\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-29T19:45:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-29T19:54:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1682781334.63.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-to-new-kdf-leadership-serve-kenyans-diligently\",\"name\":\"Ruto to new KDF leadership: Serve Kenyans diligently - 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