{"id":203254,"date":"2025-07-25T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-wandayi-urges-vigilance-against-vandals-as-he-launches-rural-electrification-in-kisii\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T13:31:14","slug":"kenya-wandayi-urges-vigilance-against-vandals-as-he-launches-rural-electrification-in-kisii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-wandayi-urges-vigilance-against-vandals-as-he-launches-rural-electrification-in-kisii\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Wandayi Urges Vigilance Against Vandals As He Launches Rural Electrification in Kisii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kisii \u2014 <em>Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi has urged Kenyans to remain vigilant in protecting the country&#8217;s electricity infrastructure from vandals as the government accelerates rural electrification projects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking in Kitutu Chache North, Bochoge Chache, and South Mugirango constituencies in Kisii County, where he commissioned new electrification projects on Thursday, Wandayi called on residents to work closely with authorities to report cases of transformer vandalism and illegal power&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250351.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>Kisii \u2014 Energy Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi has urged Kenyans to remain vigilant in protecting the country&#8217;s electricity infrastructure from vandals as the government accelerates rural electrification projects. Speaking in Kitutu Chache North, Bochoge Chache, and South Mugirango constituencies in Kisii County, where he commissioned new electrification projects on Thursday, Wandayi called on residents to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203255,"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":[258,256,6308,4688,430,9126,5957,257,6309,254,6810,31261,15452,44856],"class_list":["post-203254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-electrification","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kisii","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-vandals","tag-vigilance","tag-wandayi"],"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\/203254","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=203254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}