{"id":195884,"date":"2025-04-11T23:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-has-no-problem-with-echoes-of-war-play-murkomen\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:17:46","slug":"kenya-govt-has-no-problem-with-echoes-of-war-play-murkomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-has-no-problem-with-echoes-of-war-play-murkomen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt Has No Problem With Echoes of War Play &#8211; Murkomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Tana River \u2014 <em>Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has reiterated that the Government supports free speech and is not in the business of censorship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">Speaking to journalists on the fifth day of his Jukwaa La Usalama county tours in Tana River, the CS said he never condemned the play &#8216;Echoes of War&#8217; which was to be staged by Butere Girls students on Wednesday during the 63rd Kenya National Drama and Film Festival in Nakuru county, and that he only criticised the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110485.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>Tana River \u2014 Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has reiterated that the Government supports free speech and is not in the business of censorship. Speaking to journalists on the fifth day of his Jukwaa La Usalama county tours in Tana River, the CS said he never condemned the play &#8216;Echoes of War&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195885,"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":[258,256,15871,4357,4688,430,44886,257,7543,9981,254,6618],"class_list":["post-195884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-echoes","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-murkomen","tag-news","tag-play","tag-problem","tag-south-africa-today","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\/195884","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=195884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}