{"id":193245,"date":"2025-03-10T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-shanzu-court-sentences-two-men-in-former-kilifi-dg-kamtos-murder\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:39:23","slug":"kenya-shanzu-court-sentences-two-men-in-former-kilifi-dg-kamtos-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-shanzu-court-sentences-two-men-in-former-kilifi-dg-kamtos-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Shanzu Court Sentences Two Men in Former Kilifi DG Kamto&#8217;s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Shanzu Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court has sentenced two men to forty and thirty years each for their role in the murder of former Kilifi Deputy Governor Kenneth Kamto in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Chief Magistrate Yusuf Shikanda sentenced Julius Gitonga M&#8217;Muguu to 40 years in jail, while handing his accomplice, Joseph Amwayi Mukabana, 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The court found the two guilty of multiple counts of robbery with violence, along with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. It handed sentences ranging&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070315.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 The Shanzu Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court has sentenced two men to forty and thirty years each for their role in the murder of former Kilifi Deputy Governor Kenneth Kamto in 2018. Chief Magistrate Yusuf Shikanda sentenced Julius Gitonga M&#8217;Muguu to 40 years in jail, while handing his accomplice, Joseph Amwayi Mukabana, 30 years. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193246,"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":[258,256,6185,28672,4688,430,12130,6801,304,257,9735,50819,254],"class_list":["post-193245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-kamtos","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kilifi","tag-men","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-sentences","tag-shanzu","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\/193245","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=193245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}