{"id":192078,"date":"2025-02-23T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-former-electoral-chief-dies-in-nairobi\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:30:12","slug":"kenyas-former-electoral-chief-dies-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-former-electoral-chief-dies-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Former Electoral Chief Dies in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Wafula Chebukati, the former chairperson of Kenya&#8217;s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has died, the family has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Chebukati who was aged 64, died at 11 pm on Thursday, February 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The confirmation of his death comes after it was reported last week that he was critically ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The former IEBC boss was in hospital in Nairobi where he had been undergoing treatment for nearly a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He was admitted to the intensive care unit at the hospital. What Chebukati was ailing from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502210422.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>Wafula Chebukati, the former chairperson of Kenya&#8217;s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has died, the family has confirmed. Chebukati who was aged 64, died at 11 pm on Thursday, February 20. The confirmation of his death comes after it was reported last week that he was critically ill. The former IEBC boss was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":192079,"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":[258,256,6510,6868,7239,430,6097,259,257,254],"class_list":["post-192078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-dies","tag-electoral","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/192078","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=192078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}