{"id":195234,"date":"2025-04-02T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-unveils-sh1-12bn-power-project-inspects-key-laikipia-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:59:12","slug":"kenya-ruto-unveils-sh1-12bn-power-project-inspects-key-laikipia-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-unveils-sh1-12bn-power-project-inspects-key-laikipia-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Unveils Sh1.12bn Power Project, Inspects Key Laikipia Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has announced a Sh1.12 billion investment to connect over 9,000 households to electricity in Laikipia County as part of the government&#8217;s infrastructure expansion efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">During his visit, the President also inspected the Sh350 million Nanyuki Modern Market and addressed residents on ongoing national development programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He toured the 200-unit Nanyuki Affordable Housing Project, now 97 percent complete, which has created over 1,000 jobs since its launch in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020488.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 has announced a Sh1.12 billion investment to connect over 9,000 households to electricity in Laikipia County as part of the government&#8217;s infrastructure expansion efforts. During his visit, the President also inspected the Sh350 million Nanyuki Modern Market and addressed residents on ongoing national development programs. He toured the 200-unit Nanyuki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195235,"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":[258,256,10790,4688,430,7274,25407,257,7047,6504,6039,11238,51029,254,6777],"class_list":["post-195234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-inspects","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-key","tag-laikipia","tag-news","tag-power","tag-project","tag-projects","tag-ruto","tag-sh1-12bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveils"],"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\/195234","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=195234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}