{"id":202270,"date":"2025-07-12T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-boniface-kariuki-to-be-laid-to-rest-in-kangema\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:05:30","slug":"kenya-boniface-kariuki-to-be-laid-to-rest-in-kangema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-boniface-kariuki-to-be-laid-to-rest-in-kangema\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Boniface Kariuki to Be Laid to Rest in Kangema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 Boniface Kariuki, the face-mask hawker who was shot in the head by police during protests in Nairobi&#8217;s CBD on June 17 will be laid to rest in Kangema, Murang&#8217;a County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Kariuki was shot at close range and rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital, where he underwent surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He remained in the Intensive Care Unit for two weeks before being declared brain dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) approved murder charges against Police Constable Klinzy Masinde Barasa over the fatal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110488.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 Boniface Kariuki, the face-mask hawker who was shot in the head by police during protests in Nairobi&#8217;s CBD on June 17 will be laid to rest in Kangema, Murang&#8217;a County. Kariuki was shot at close range and rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital, where he underwent surgery. He remained in the Intensive Care Unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202271,"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":[258,256,15522,51849,19916,4688,430,8416,257,8417,254],"class_list":["post-202270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boniface","tag-kangema","tag-kariuki","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-laid","tag-news","tag-rest","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/202270","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=202270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}