{"id":175127,"date":"2024-06-23T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-confusion-and-outrage-follow-itumbis-flip-flop-on-crazy-nairobians-release\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T16:17:10","slug":"kenya-confusion-and-outrage-follow-itumbis-flip-flop-on-crazy-nairobians-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-confusion-and-outrage-follow-itumbis-flip-flop-on-crazy-nairobians-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Confusion and Outrage Follow Itumbi&#8217;s Flip-Flop On Crazy Nairobian&#8217;s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 Digital strategist Dennis Itumbi has retracted his earlier statement regarding the whereabouts of missing content creator Billy Simani, known as Crazy Nairobian, hours after claiming he had been released from custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The blogger was arrested for reportedly mocking a senior government official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Initially, Itumbi announced Simani&#8217;s release on bond following the withdrawal of accusations against him, stating, &#8220;Asante, for the withdrawal of the complaint. Crazy Nairobian released on Free&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406230047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Digital strategist Dennis Itumbi has retracted his earlier statement regarding the whereabouts of missing content creator Billy Simani, known as Crazy Nairobian, hours after claiming he had been released from custody. The blogger was arrested for reportedly mocking a senior government official. Initially, Itumbi announced Simani&#8217;s release on bond following the withdrawal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":175128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7876,11319,43216,13738,40970,4688,430,17563,257,13149,6011,254],"class_list":["post-175127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confusion","tag-crazy","tag-flipflop","tag-follow","tag-itumbis","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobians","tag-news","tag-outrage","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}