{"id":191191,"date":"2025-02-12T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T03:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-north-eastern-leaders-slam-kalonzo-natembeya-over-criticism-of-id-vetting-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T05:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T03:05:37","slug":"kenya-north-eastern-leaders-slam-kalonzo-natembeya-over-criticism-of-id-vetting-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-north-eastern-leaders-slam-kalonzo-natembeya-over-criticism-of-id-vetting-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: North Eastern Leaders Slam Kalonzo, Natembeya Over Criticism of ID Vetting Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Lawmakers hailing from the North Eastern region have castigated Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Transnzoia Governor George Natembeya for criticizing President William Ruto for scrapping off ID vetting process in the region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The leaders condemned sentiments by the two leaders terming them reckless and aimed at inflaming division in the North Eastern region which has been marginalized for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;They attempt to vilify and unjustly profile an entire community as terrorists,an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502110253.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 Lawmakers hailing from the North Eastern region have castigated Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka and Transnzoia Governor George Natembeya for criticizing President William Ruto for scrapping off ID vetting process in the region. The leaders condemned sentiments by the two leaders terming them reckless and aimed at inflaming division in the North Eastern region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191192,"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":[258,256,7185,11451,7152,17639,4688,430,4381,37951,257,6732,12557,254,10840],"class_list":["post-191191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-criticism","tag-eastern","tag-kalonzo","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leaders","tag-natembeya","tag-news","tag-north","tag-slam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vetting"],"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\/191191","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=191191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}