{"id":177262,"date":"2024-07-25T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-names-masengeli-acting-police-ig-pending-kanjas-vetting\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T19:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T17:30:20","slug":"kenya-ruto-names-masengeli-acting-police-ig-pending-kanjas-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-names-masengeli-acting-police-ig-pending-kanjas-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Names Masengeli Acting Police IG Pending Kanja&#8217;s Vetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has named Gilbert Masengeli as the Acting Inspector General of Police, pending the consideration of Douglas Kanja&#8217;s nomination as the substantive IG.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Masengeli, appointed as the Deputy Inspector General of the Administration Police Service following National Police Service Commission recommendation, steps in following President Ruto&#8217;s nomination of Kanja for the IG position, in accordance with Article 245 (2) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Kanja had been serving as the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407250478.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 named Gilbert Masengeli as the Acting Inspector General of Police, pending the consideration of Douglas Kanja&#8217;s nomination as the substantive IG. Masengeli, appointed as the Deputy Inspector General of the Administration Police Service following National Police Service Commission recommendation, steps in following President Ruto&#8217;s nomination of Kanja for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651260:114217deef85d6c8e2017b86afdd887c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8865,258,256,49143,4688,430,49142,8650,257,8067,662,11238,254,10840],"class_list":["post-177262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-acting","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kanjas","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-masengeli","tag-names","tag-news","tag-pending","tag-police","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vetting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651260:114217deef85d6c8e2017b86afdd887c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262","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=177262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}