# William Ruto is sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 13 September 2022 [William Ruto](/people/william-ruto) took the oath as president of Kenya at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.

## Context

The Constitution fixed the window after the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Koome administered the oath. [Odinga](/people/raila-odinga) did not attend. Foreign envoys did. Office is not authorship of Parliament’s later statutes.

The fuel-subsidy scrap in the inaugural programme is stored separately. The IEBC declaration and court judgment are earlier dates.

The president of Kenya is head of state and government under Article 131, commander-in-chief, and assents to bills Parliament has passed. He does not write IEBC gazette notices, Supreme Court judgments, UN Security Council resolutions, or IMF board decisions.

## Evidence and sources

President of Kenya carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed scheduled transfer after a petition is the constitutional calendar holding. It does not rebate later lethal protest weeks and it does not authorise treating every later order as the oath.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 13 September 2022 presidential oath and transfer, independently reported.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Chief Justice administered it. Agencies then received orders stored as other Facts.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies William Ruto is sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president, not a later speech about William Ruto is sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. William Ruto is sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president on 2022-09-13 is not a licence to treat every later President of Kenya communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average William Ruto is sworn in as Kenya’s fifth president into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He took the oath. The Chief Justice administered it. Agencies then received orders stored as other Facts. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- William Ruto: https://factrail.ai/people/william-ruto

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyas-ruto-sworn-president-after-disputed-election-2022-09-13/
- https://www.president.go.ke/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ke-ruto-inauguration-2022