{"id":198111,"date":"2025-05-15T00:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ipoa-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-wave-of-abductions-cite-pattern-of-rights-violations\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:28:56","slug":"kenya-ipoa-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-wave-of-abductions-cite-pattern-of-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ipoa-calls-for-public-inquiry-into-wave-of-abductions-cite-pattern-of-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: IPOA Calls for Public Inquiry Into Wave of Abductions, Cite Pattern of Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has formally called for a public inquiry into the recent wave of abductions reported across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">This follows President William Ruto&#8217;s admission that all abducted individuals had since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Administration and Internal Security on Monday, IPOA Chairperson Issack Hassan urged Parliament to lead the establishment of an official inquiry to uncover the identities and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505140411.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 The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has formally called for a public inquiry into the recent wave of abductions reported across the country. This follows President William Ruto&#8217;s admission that all abducted individuals had since been released. Appearing before the National Assembly Committee on Administration and Internal Security on Monday, IPOA Chairperson Issack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198112,"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":[24929,258,256,6137,10983,11548,13350,4688,430,257,10001,5751,5100,254,11974,8942],"class_list":["post-198111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abductions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cite","tag-inquiry","tag-ipoa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-pattern","tag-public","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violations","tag-wave"],"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\/198111","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=198111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}