{"id":201191,"date":"2025-06-29T02:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-blames-state-sponsored-goons-for-chaos-looting-during-gen-z-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T02:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:35:35","slug":"kenya-gachagua-blames-state-sponsored-goons-for-chaos-looting-during-gen-z-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-blames-state-sponsored-goons-for-chaos-looting-during-gen-z-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Blames State-Sponsored Goons for Chaos, Looting During Gen Z Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is now pointing a finger back at the Government for failing to provide sufficient security personnel to prevent a looting spree that was witnessed after goons inflitrated the June 25, 2025 demonstration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Members of the National Assembly allied to the broadbased government want police to investigate Gachagua and his allies on their role in financing, mobilising and orchestrating the unlawful incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In a statement on his social media account,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270465.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 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua is now pointing a finger back at the Government for failing to provide sufficient security personnel to prevent a looting spree that was witnessed after goons inflitrated the June 25, 2025 demonstration. Members of the National Assembly allied to the broadbased government want police to investigate Gachagua and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":201192,"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":[258,256,8259,6604,36131,11240,17080,4688,430,11764,257,5253,254,38580],"class_list":["post-201191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-chaos","tag-gachagua","tag-gen","tag-goons","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-looting","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statesponsored"],"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\/201191","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=201191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}