{"id":197488,"date":"2025-05-06T00:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-security-expert-calls-for-overhaul-of-the-presidential-protection-protocols-after-ruto-shoe-hurling-incident-in-migori\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:07:07","slug":"kenya-security-expert-calls-for-overhaul-of-the-presidential-protection-protocols-after-ruto-shoe-hurling-incident-in-migori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-security-expert-calls-for-overhaul-of-the-presidential-protection-protocols-after-ruto-shoe-hurling-incident-in-migori\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Security Expert Calls for Overhaul of the Presidential Protection Protocols After Ruto-Shoe Hurling Incident in Migori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>A security expert has called for an urgent need to professionalize Kenya&#8217;s protective services following a security scare during a public rally in Kehancha, Migori County, where a shoe was hurled at President William Ruto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">George Musamali, a former police officer and a security analyst said the incident exposed glaring weaknesses in the country&#8217;s VIP protection protocols, which he described as outdated and in need of a comprehensive overhaul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking to Capital News Musamali described&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505050446.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 A security expert has called for an urgent need to professionalize Kenya&#8217;s protective services following a security scare during a public rally in Kehancha, Migori County, where a shoe was hurled at President William Ruto. George Musamali, a former police officer and a security analyst said the incident exposed glaring weaknesses in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197489,"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":[258,256,6137,8957,51288,14345,4688,430,43852,257,17947,6438,7897,20304,51287,4586,254],"class_list":["post-197488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-expert","tag-hurling","tag-incident","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-migori","tag-news","tag-overhaul","tag-presidential","tag-protection","tag-protocols","tag-rutoshoe","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/197488","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=197488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}