{"id":189522,"date":"2025-01-24T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-who-are-you-lecturing-ruto-takes-veiled-jab-at-gachagua-labels-him-conman\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:18:45","slug":"kenya-who-are-you-lecturing-ruto-takes-veiled-jab-at-gachagua-labels-him-conman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-who-are-you-lecturing-ruto-takes-veiled-jab-at-gachagua-labels-him-conman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Who Are You Lecturing?&#8217; &#8211; Ruto Takes Veiled Jab At Gachagua, Labels Him &#8216;Conman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has criticized his former Deputy President, following <em>Rigathi<\/em> Gachagua&#8217;s recent interractive session on social media in which he accused the Kenya Kwanza administration of failing to deliver on its promises.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Speaking in Busia County on Friday, President Ruto underscored the importance of national unity and condemned leaders who promote tribalism, hatred, and division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He specifically called out Gachagua, accusing him of incompetence and a lack of direction during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240433.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 criticized his former Deputy President, following Rigathi Gachagua&#8217;s recent interractive session on social media in which he accused the Kenya Kwanza administration of failing to deliver on its promises. Speaking in Busia County on Friday, President Ruto underscored the importance of national unity and condemned leaders who promote tribalism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":189523,"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":[258,256,50469,36131,37675,4688,430,21939,50467,257,11238,254,5056,50468],"class_list":["post-189522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conman","tag-gachagua","tag-jab","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-labels","tag-lecturing","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-veiled"],"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\/189522","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=189522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}