{"id":176131,"date":"2024-07-08T06:50:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-orders-state-officers-not-to-participate-in-public-fundraisers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:50:24","slug":"kenya-president-ruto-orders-state-officers-not-to-participate-in-public-fundraisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-orders-state-officers-not-to-participate-in-public-fundraisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: President Ruto Orders State Officers Not to Participate in Public Fundraisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has banned State officers from participating in public fundraisers with immediate effect.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Speaking during a press conference at State House Nairobi on Friday, the head of state further directed them to keep off philanthropic activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He also ordered the Attorney General to &#8220;prepare and submit legislation to this effect and develop a mechanism for structured and transparent contribution for public, charitable and philanthropic purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He further indicated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050468.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 banned State officers from participating in public fundraisers with immediate effect. Speaking during a press conference at State House Nairobi on Friday, the head of state further directed them to keep off philanthropic activities. He also ordered the Attorney General to &#8220;prepare and submit legislation to this effect and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176132,"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":[258,256,48974,4688,430,257,6749,6186,7492,2450,5751,11238,254,6017],"class_list":["post-176131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fundraisers","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-orders","tag-participate","tag-president","tag-public","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/176131","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=176131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}