{"id":183232,"date":"2024-10-24T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-public-urged-to-step-up-as-witnesses-to-combat-rising-insecurity-in-kisumu\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:13:10","slug":"kenya-public-urged-to-step-up-as-witnesses-to-combat-rising-insecurity-in-kisumu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-public-urged-to-step-up-as-witnesses-to-combat-rising-insecurity-in-kisumu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Public Urged to Step Up As Witnesses to Combat Rising Insecurity in Kisumu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Kisumu \u2014 <em>Nyanza Regional Commissioner Zipora Mworoa has called on the residents of the region to actively participate as witnesses in court to help combat the escalating insecurity in the area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Mworoa emphasized that the absence of witnesses has led to criminals escaping justice, as cases often collapse without testimony. &#8220;A case can only proceed to court if there is a witness,&#8221; she stated, highlighting the critical role of community involvement in the justice system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">She pointed out that many&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410240339.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>Kisumu \u2014 Nyanza Regional Commissioner Zipora Mworoa has called on the residents of the region to actively participate as witnesses in court to help combat the escalating insecurity in the area. Mworoa emphasized that the absence of witnesses has led to criminals escaping justice, as cases often collapse without testimony. &#8220;A case can only proceed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":183233,"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":[258,256,12857,2134,4688,430,6521,257,5751,6678,254,5165,6206,12677],"class_list":["post-183232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-combat","tag-insecurity","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kisumu","tag-news","tag-public","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-urged","tag-witnesses"],"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\/183232","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=183232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}