{"id":196762,"date":"2025-04-25T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rutos-mid-year-scorecard-figures-on-rail-power-and-support-for-the-elderly-dont-add-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:45:33","slug":"kenya-rutos-mid-year-scorecard-figures-on-rail-power-and-support-for-the-elderly-dont-add-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rutos-mid-year-scorecard-figures-on-rail-power-and-support-for-the-elderly-dont-add-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto&#8217;s Mid-Year Scorecard &#8211; Figures On Rail, Power and Support for the Elderly Don&#8217;t Add Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Ruto&#8217;s mid-year scorecard: figures on rail, power and support for the elderly don&#8217;t add up<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A supposed increase of 731,188 tonnes &#8211; or 11.4% &#8211; in rail cargo on the country&#8217;s flagship standard-gauge railway is inaccurate. The actual growth is 440,976 tonnes, or 7.2%. Additionally, there is no data yet for 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Power generation data showed real progress, but the president used incorrect figures, missing a chance to highlight genuine achievements.<\/li>\n<li>The claim that 76,000 teachers were hired during his&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250045.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>Ruto&#8217;s mid-year scorecard: figures on rail, power and support for the elderly don&#8217;t add up A supposed increase of 731,188 tonnes &#8211; or 11.4% &#8211; in rail cargo on the country&#8217;s flagship standard-gauge railway is inaccurate. The actual growth is 440,976 tonnes, or 7.2%. Additionally, there is no data yet for 2025. Power generation data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196763,"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":[8272,258,256,7207,5624,10244,4688,430,22793,257,7047,7366,12640,18425,254,6096],"class_list":["post-196762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-add","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dont","tag-elderly","tag-figures","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-midyear","tag-news","tag-power","tag-rail","tag-rutos","tag-scorecard","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/196762","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=196762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}