{"id":199853,"date":"2025-06-09T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-deputy-ig-eliud-lagat-over-bloggers-death\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:52:17","slug":"kenya-gachagua-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-deputy-ig-eliud-lagat-over-bloggers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-deputy-ig-eliud-lagat-over-bloggers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Calls for Immediate Suspension of Deputy IG Eliud Lagat Over Blogger&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 9<\/em> &#8211; Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has called for the immediate suspension of Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat following the death of Albert Ojwang, a social media influencer who died in police custody at Nairobi&#8217;s Central Police Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Ojwang was reportedly arrested in Nyanza over alleged &#8220;cyber harassment&#8221; after publishing critical posts about Lagat. He was then transferred to Nairobi and detained at Central Police Station, where he is alleged to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090307.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, Kenya, May 9 &#8211; Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has called for the immediate suspension of Deputy Inspector General of Police Eliud Lagat following the death of Albert Ojwang, a social media influencer who died in police custody at Nairobi&#8217;s Central Police Station. Ojwang was reportedly arrested in Nyanza over alleged &#8220;cyber harassment&#8221; after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199854,"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":[258,256,3003,6137,6974,6012,24462,36131,4688,430,51574,257,254,10829],"class_list":["post-199853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bloggers","tag-calls","tag-death","tag-deputy","tag-eliud","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lagat","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspension"],"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\/199853","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=199853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}