{"id":185975,"date":"2024-12-06T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-warns-against-petty-politics-hindering-development\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:18:19","slug":"kenya-ruto-warns-against-petty-politics-hindering-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-warns-against-petty-politics-hindering-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Warns Against Petty Politics Hindering Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has urged Kenyans to stop playing petty politics that hinder developmental projects that benefit them and create employment opportunities for the youth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Speaking during the opening of the Kilifi county international investment conference in Vipingo, President Ruto lauded residents there for being pace setters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">&#8220;Let me ask you to do the right thing, if something is right say it is right if something is wrong let&#8217;s say it is wrong but, but let us not play petty&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412050546.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 urged Kenyans to stop playing petty politics that hinder developmental projects that benefit them and create employment opportunities for the youth. Speaking during the opening of the Kilifi county international investment conference in Vipingo, President Ruto lauded residents there for being pace setters. &#8220;Let me ask you to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":185976,"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":[258,256,5989,9927,4688,430,257,13534,6916,11238,254,6853],"class_list":["post-185975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-development","tag-hindering","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-petty","tag-politics","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"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\/185975","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=185975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}