No, former President Uhuru has not indicated that if the police fail to protect Kenyans, the military will.

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Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has stated that the military will defend Kenyans if the police fail to do so.

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered a video shared on Kenya Digital News’ YouTube channel on April 26, 2023, in which Former President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the media, in which he told off police officers who had cordoned off the Jubilee Party Headquarters in Nairobi during the heated wranglings between two rival factions in the party, in which the former head of state insisted that the police are an independent body and should focus on matters of building the nation rather than privatization, and made no mention of Kenyans being protected by the military if the police fail to do so.

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Statement from Former President Uhuru Kenyatta

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