{"id":199299,"date":"2025-06-02T01:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sasha-bites-the-dust-kru-chair-resigns-at-stormy-sgm\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T23:35:29","slug":"kenya-sasha-bites-the-dust-kru-chair-resigns-at-stormy-sgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sasha-bites-the-dust-kru-chair-resigns-at-stormy-sgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sasha Bites the Dust! Kru Chair Resigns At Stormy Sgm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) chair Alexander &#8216;Sasha&#8217; Mutai has resigned ahead of a no-confidence motion against him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Mutai threw in the towel at a tense Special General Meeting (SGM) at the RFUEA Grounds, along Ngong&#8217; Road, Friday midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;Maybe I am not a good politician&#8230;maybe I don&#8217;t know how to cajole. Having read the room&#8230;and looking up to my role model Mwangi Muthee&#8230;I hereby tender my resignation as chair,&#8221; Mutai said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The chair had been placed on the hot seat on allegations of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300473.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 Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) chair Alexander &#8216;Sasha&#8217; Mutai has resigned ahead of a no-confidence motion against him. Mutai threw in the towel at a tense Special General Meeting (SGM) at the RFUEA Grounds, along Ngong&#8217; Road, Friday midday. &#8220;Maybe I am not a good politician&#8230;maybe I don&#8217;t know how to cajole. Having read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199300,"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":[258,256,11658,6412,21057,4688,430,8995,257,8623,39139,51499,254,29115],"class_list":["post-199299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bites","tag-chair","tag-dust","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kru","tag-news","tag-resigns","tag-sasha","tag-sgm","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stormy"],"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\/199299","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=199299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}