Kenya's Supreme Court upholds Ruto's win

Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld William Ruto's victory in the presidential election held last month, dismissing allegations of fraud in the poll by opposition leader Raila Odinga.

In giving its judgment, the Supreme Court unanimously threw out a petition by Odinga who argued the declaration of Ruto as president-elect was null and void.

Martha Koome, Kenya's chief justice, started reading the judgment by highlighting the issues that were submitted before the court. She said there was no evidence of discrepancies in most of the nine issues raised by the petitioners. "The Supreme Court finds that petitioners did not provide a watertight case for the nullification of results on the basis that the 50 percent plus-one constitutional threshold for an outright win was not met," Koome said while delivering the ruling.