{"id":200689,"date":"2025-06-22T14:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-waiguru-urges-accountability-amid-police-brutality-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T12:19:42","slug":"kenya-waiguru-urges-accountability-amid-police-brutality-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-waiguru-urges-accountability-amid-police-brutality-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Waiguru Urges Accountability Amid Police Brutality Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kirinyaga \u2014 Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has called on leaders and police officers to exercise tolerance and professionalism, especially when dealing with critics and members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Referring to the recent death of blogger Albert Ojwang while in police custody and the shooting of a mask vendor Boniface Kariuki in Nairobi, Waiguru said there is no justification for taking a life&#8211;even under provocation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;As leaders, we are insulted from morning to evening. But we don&#8217;t send people to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200355.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>Kirinyaga \u2014 Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has called on leaders and police officers to exercise tolerance and professionalism, especially when dealing with critics and members of the public. Referring to the recent death of blogger Albert Ojwang while in police custody and the shooting of a mask vendor Boniface Kariuki in Nairobi, Waiguru said there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200690,"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":[13948,258,256,6315,5987,4688,430,257,662,254,6810,13732],"class_list":["post-200689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brutality","tag-concerns","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-waiguru"],"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\/200689","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=200689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}