{"id":187434,"date":"2024-12-28T13:09:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-abductions-gachagua-urges-churches-international-community-to-speak-out\/"},"modified":"2024-12-28T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:09:46","slug":"kenya-abductions-gachagua-urges-churches-international-community-to-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-abductions-gachagua-urges-churches-international-community-to-speak-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Abductions &#8211; Gachagua Urges Churches, International Community to Speak Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nyeri \u2014 <em>Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has called for intervention from the church and the international community amid a wave of abductions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Gachagua claimed on Friday that a rogue police abduction squad, operating outside the command of the Inspector General of Police, is responsible for the disturbing trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He urged the chruch and international community to take a stand against the violence perpetrated on innocent citizens, particularly young people critical of the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412280034.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>Nyeri \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has called for intervention from the church and the international community amid a wave of abductions. Gachagua claimed on Friday that a rogue police abduction squad, operating outside the command of the Inspector General of Police, is responsible for the disturbing trend. He urged the chruch and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187435,"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":[24929,258,256,9516,7963,36131,4337,4688,430,257,254,8676,6810],"class_list":["post-187434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abductions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-churches","tag-community","tag-gachagua","tag-international","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speak","tag-urges"],"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\/187434","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=187434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}