{"id":197625,"date":"2025-05-08T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-2-additional-suspects-arrested-in-connection-to-kasipuls-mp-weres-murder\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:11:26","slug":"kenya-2-additional-suspects-arrested-in-connection-to-kasipuls-mp-weres-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-2-additional-suspects-arrested-in-connection-to-kasipuls-mp-weres-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 2 Additional Suspects Arrested in Connection to Kasipul&#8217;s MP Were&#8217;s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Detectives have apprehended two more suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of Kasipul MP Charles Ong&#8217;ondo Were a week ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The legislator was shot dead on April 30 in a suspected targeted assassination near the City Mortuary roundabout in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Wednesday confirmed the arrests of Edwin Oduor Odhiambo, also known as Abdul Rashid, and Dennis Sewe Munyasi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Following their arrest, DCI stated that the suspects led investigators&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070471.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 Detectives have apprehended two more suspects in connection with the fatal shooting of Kasipul MP Charles Ong&#8217;ondo Were a week ago. The legislator was shot dead on April 30 in a suspected targeted assassination near the City Mortuary roundabout in Nairobi. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Wednesday confirmed the arrests of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197626,"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":[7303,258,256,4304,12402,51305,4688,430,304,257,254,4360,51306],"class_list":["post-197625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-additional","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-connection","tag-kasipuls","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects","tag-weres"],"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\/197625","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=197625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}