{"id":177368,"date":"2024-07-27T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T05:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-old-photograph-used-as-false-evidence-that-kenyan-governor-embezzled-stadium-funds\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T05:33:28","slug":"kenya-old-photograph-used-as-false-evidence-that-kenyan-governor-embezzled-stadium-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-old-photograph-used-as-false-evidence-that-kenyan-governor-embezzled-stadium-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Old Photograph Used As False Evidence That Kenyan Governor Embezzled Stadium Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>A viral photo of a dilapidated shade has gone viral on social media, along with claims that money earmarked for a stadium has been embezzled by the governor of Garissa county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid033Qk14yQTENLTXrpwZ2Q22HKfpiTgMyK6XXxPPJPdQpg69R8VsmbwAZSa9exDwzZsl&amp;id=100093676317239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo<\/a> has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid033Qk14yQTENLTXrpwZ2Q22HKfpiTgMyK6XXxPPJPdQpg69R8VsmbwAZSa9exDwzZsl&amp;id=100093676317239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> on social media with the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DonaldBKipkorir\/status\/1811038472695685381\">claim<\/a> it shows a newly built football stadium in Kenya&#8217;s Garissa county, about 370 kilometres from the capital Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The photo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid033Qk14yQTENLTXrpwZ2Q22HKfpiTgMyK6XXxPPJPdQpg69R8VsmbwAZSa9exDwzZsl&amp;id=100093676317239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> a ramshackle shade, draped in the Kenyan flag. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JeffKinyanjuiSports\/posts\/pfbid02BMpzjro6F1gK5JcCqRyhyARAqL3gXdQoSoKZoG6m8R7pt5ARFMnCBfnvKxFGrAGzl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">images<\/a> are accompanied by allegations against Garissa governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NathifAdam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nathif Jama<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407260445.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>IN SHORT: A viral photo of a dilapidated shade has gone viral on social media, along with claims that money earmarked for a stadium has been embezzled by the governor of Garissa county. A photo has been posted on social media with the claim it shows a newly built football stadium in Kenya&#8217;s Garissa county, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177369,"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":[258,256,25212,7013,7556,5782,4269,4688,430,4524,257,49158,254,9328],"class_list":["post-177368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embezzled","tag-evidence","tag-false","tag-funds","tag-governor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-photograph","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium"],"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\/177368","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=177368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}