{"id":193406,"date":"2025-03-12T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rutos-1mn-chapati-promise-earns-him-nickname-el-chapo\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:46:01","slug":"kenya-rutos-1mn-chapati-promise-earns-him-nickname-el-chapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rutos-1mn-chapati-promise-earns-him-nickname-el-chapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto&#8217;s 1mn Chapati Promise Earns Him Nickname &#8216;El Chapo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto&#8217;s promise to buy a chapati-making machine for students in Nairobi and the city&#8217;s subsidised school meals initiative has triggered widespread ridicule and criticism online with critics terming it a nonpriority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Ruto made the pledge at St. Teresa Girls Secondary School in Mathare after during his development tour of Nairobi after Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja requested assistance in purchasing the machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The machine would be used to make chapati, which the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503120402.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&#8217;s promise to buy a chapati-making machine for students in Nairobi and the city&#8217;s subsidised school meals initiative has triggered widespread ridicule and criticism online with critics terming it a nonpriority. Ruto made the pledge at St. Teresa Girls Secondary School in Mathare after during his development tour of Nairobi after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193407,"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":[50845,258,256,50846,48476,9994,4688,430,257,43693,11903,12640,254],"class_list":["post-193406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1mn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chapati","tag-chapo","tag-earns","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nickname","tag-promise","tag-rutos","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\/193406","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=193406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}