{"id":195795,"date":"2025-04-10T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-former-cj-maraga-condemns-teargassing-of-butere-girls-secondary-school-students-over-echoes-of-war-play\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T09:15:08","slug":"kenya-former-cj-maraga-condemns-teargassing-of-butere-girls-secondary-school-students-over-echoes-of-war-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-former-cj-maraga-condemns-teargassing-of-butere-girls-secondary-school-students-over-echoes-of-war-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Former CJ Maraga Condemns Teargassing of Butere Girls Secondary School Students Over &#8216;Echoes of War&#8217; Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Former Chief Justice David Maraga has condemned the teargassing of Butere Girls Secondary School students as they were leaving Kirobon Girls High School in Nakuru, where the National Drama Festivals is taking place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a statement, the CJ emeritus indicated that &#8220;the use of force against minors&#8211;children who were engaging in a peaceful, creative, and educational activity&#8211;is not only unconscionable but also unconstitutional and therefore totally unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;It is a flagrant&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504100217.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 Former Chief Justice David Maraga has condemned the teargassing of Butere Girls Secondary School students as they were leaving Kirobon Girls High School in Nakuru, where the National Drama Festivals is taking place. In a statement, the CJ emeritus indicated that &#8220;the use of force against minors&#8211;children who were engaging in a peaceful, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195796,"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":[258,256,45702,7610,15871,7010,4688,430,12774,257,7543,4362,12797,254,6695,22663,6618],"class_list":["post-195795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-butere","tag-condemns","tag-echoes","tag-girls","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-maraga","tag-news","tag-play","tag-school","tag-secondary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students","tag-teargassing","tag-war"],"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\/195795","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=195795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}