Editing Mwai Kibaki (section)

===Swearing in===
On 30 December 2002, still nursing injuries from the motor vehicle accident and in a wheel chair, Kibaki was sworn in as the third President and [[Commander in Chief]] of the Armed Forces of the Republic of [[Kenya]], in front of thousands of cheering supporters at the historic [[Uhuru Park]] within Nairobi City. At his inauguration, he stressed his opposition to government corruption, saying: {{Blockquote|"Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/pdfs/governance/EMILIO_MWAI_KIBAKI.pdf|title=EMILIO MWAI KIBAKI 1. ENCYCLOPEDIA&nbsp;– COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 2. BIOGRAPHY|work=Google|access-date=7 June 2009|archive-date=9 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109200017/http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/pdfs/governance/EMILIO_MWAI_KIBAKI.pdf|url-status=usurped}}</ref>}}

Kibaki's swearing in marked the end of four decades of KANU rule, the party having ruled Kenya since independence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 Jan 2003 |newspaper=[[The Cincinnati Post]] |title=Kenyan results |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |page=2 |access-date=22 April 2022 |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100240061/the-cincinnati-post/}}</ref> Moi, who had been in power for 24 years, began his retirement.<ref>{{Cite news |page=A02 |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |author=Sudarsan Raghavan |title=Clipped from the Philadelphia Inquirer |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |date=5 January 2003 |access-date=22 April 2022 |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100240156/}}</ref>