{"id":187451,"date":"2024-12-29T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-breaks-silence-on-abductions-urges-parental-responsibility-as-he-pledges-action\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T23:11:00","slug":"kenya-ruto-breaks-silence-on-abductions-urges-parental-responsibility-as-he-pledges-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-breaks-silence-on-abductions-urges-parental-responsibility-as-he-pledges-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Breaks Silence On Abductions, Urges Parental Responsibility As He Pledges Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has spoken out for the first time regarding a recent wave of abductions, pledging to take action to halt the troubling trend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking in Homa Bay County on Friday, Ruto urged parents to instill discipline in their children, emphasizing the importance of family responsibility in safeguarding the nation&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">His comments, however, stopped short of acknowledging any government involvement or responsibility in the abductions&#8211;a growing concern that has sparked&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412280016.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 spoken out for the first time regarding a recent wave of abductions, pledging to take action to halt the troubling trend. Speaking in Homa Bay County on Friday, Ruto urged parents to instill discipline in their children, emphasizing the importance of family responsibility in safeguarding the nation&#8217;s youth. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187452,"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":[24929,6394,258,256,9189,4688,430,257,50287,7287,9910,11238,6992,254,6810],"class_list":["post-187451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abductions","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaks","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-parental","tag-pledges","tag-responsibility","tag-ruto","tag-silence","tag-south-africa-today","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\/187451","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=187451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}