{"id":175998,"date":"2024-07-06T06:46:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-anyone-who-lost-their-family-members-in-the-alleged-githurai-massacre-should-come-forward-president-ruto\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T06:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:46:16","slug":"kenya-anyone-who-lost-their-family-members-in-the-alleged-githurai-massacre-should-come-forward-president-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-anyone-who-lost-their-family-members-in-the-alleged-githurai-massacre-should-come-forward-president-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Anyone Who Lost Their Family Members in the Alleged Githurai &#8216;Massacre&#8217; Should Come Forward &#8211; President Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has called on families who claim to have lost loved ones in the alleged &#8220;Githurai Massacre&#8221; to step forward and present themselves, along with the names of the victims, to him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking on Friday during an X Space session, President Ruto responded to questions from Kenyans, maintaining that the reported figure of 200 deaths at the hands of security agents was greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He emphasized that the loss of lives is not a &#8220;joking matter&#8221; and urged Kenyans to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050522.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 President William Ruto has called on families who claim to have lost loved ones in the alleged &#8220;Githurai Massacre&#8221; to step forward and present themselves, along with the names of the victims, to him. Speaking on Friday during an X Space session, President Ruto responded to questions from Kenyans, maintaining that the reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":175999,"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":[258,256,4305,5203,11993,4688,430,7408,2075,4326,257,2450,11238,254],"class_list":["post-175998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-family","tag-githurai","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lost","tag-massacre","tag-members","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ruto","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\/175998","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=175998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}