{"id":201638,"date":"2025-07-04T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-deserted-vigil-marks-eve-of-ojwang-burial-after-police-station-raid\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:48:51","slug":"kenya-deserted-vigil-marks-eve-of-ojwang-burial-after-police-station-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-deserted-vigil-marks-eve-of-ojwang-burial-after-police-station-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Deserted Vigil Marks Eve of Ojwang Burial After Police Station Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Kisumu \u2014 <em>The late Albert Ojwang will be buried on Friday following the arrival of his body on Thursday amid chaos at their Kokwanyo home in Homa Bay County.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Students from the nearby Mawego Technical College intercepted the body while it was en route to the family home and diverted it to Mawego Police Station, where Ojwang had been briefly detained following his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The students marched nearly three kilometres with the coffin to the police station, singing dirges along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Upon arrival,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040522.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>Kisumu \u2014 The late Albert Ojwang will be buried on Friday following the arrival of his body on Thursday amid chaos at their Kokwanyo home in Homa Bay County. Students from the nearby Mawego Technical College intercepted the body while it was en route to the family home and diverted it to Mawego Police Station, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":201639,"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":[258,256,10033,25777,12720,4688,430,9877,257,29377,662,6828,254,10613,16480],"class_list":["post-201638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burial","tag-deserted","tag-eve","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-marks","tag-news","tag-ojwang","tag-police","tag-raid","tag-south-africa-today","tag-station","tag-vigil"],"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\/201638","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=201638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}