{"id":195974,"date":"2025-04-13T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T09:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-allies-demand-accountability-for-drama-festival-chaos\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T09:21:01","slug":"kenya-gachagua-allies-demand-accountability-for-drama-festival-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-allies-demand-accountability-for-drama-festival-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Allies Demand Accountability for Drama Festival Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Allies of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua have condemned the treatment of Butere Girls High School students and journalists in the wake of the Echoes of War play, demanding accountability from those responsible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Addressing journalists at Parliament Buildings on Thursday, lawmakers led by Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba described the incident as a &#8220;disgraceful act&#8221; that amounted to state-sponsored brutality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;I call for immediate accountability. Those responsible must face&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110049.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 Allies of former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua have condemned the treatment of Butere Girls High School students and journalists in the wake of the Echoes of War play, demanding accountability from those responsible. Addressing journalists at Parliament Buildings on Thursday, lawmakers led by Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba described the incident as a &#8220;disgraceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661945:940a6e3d225644d2d15a36039084c937:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[13948,258,256,9546,6604,7617,10335,7632,36131,4688,430,257,254],"class_list":["post-195974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allies","tag-chaos","tag-demand","tag-drama","tag-festival","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661945:940a6e3d225644d2d15a36039084c937:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195974","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=195974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}