{"id":195199,"date":"2025-04-02T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-senator-nyutu-dismisses-rutos-claims-on-gachaguas-sh10bn-exit-demand\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:57:40","slug":"kenya-senator-nyutu-dismisses-rutos-claims-on-gachaguas-sh10bn-exit-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-senator-nyutu-dismisses-rutos-claims-on-gachaguas-sh10bn-exit-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Senator Nyutu Dismisses Ruto&#8217;s Claims On Gachagua&#8217;s Sh10bn Exit Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Murang&#8217;a Senator Joe Nyutu has dismissed President William Ruto&#8217;s claims that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua demanded Sh10 billion to resign amid their fallout.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaking at a press briefing, Nyutu, a close ally of Gachagua, accused Ruto of spreading falsehoods during his Monday televised address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He questioned the consistency of the allegations, pointing out that similar claims had surfaced before with different figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;Previously, there were claims by Itumbi that Gachagua&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020071.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 Murang&#8217;a Senator Joe Nyutu has dismissed President William Ruto&#8217;s claims that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua demanded Sh10 billion to resign amid their fallout. Speaking at a press briefing, Nyutu, a close ally of Gachagua, accused Ruto of spreading falsehoods during his Monday televised address. He questioned the consistency of the allegations, pointing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8117,7617,12843,17162,46599,4688,430,257,51026,12640,7798,21741,254],"class_list":["post-195199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-demand","tag-dismisses","tag-exit","tag-gachaguas","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nyutu","tag-rutos","tag-senator","tag-sh10bn","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195199","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=195199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}