{"id":204256,"date":"2025-08-08T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cs-ruku-castigates-gachagua-over-cousin-remarks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:01:11","slug":"kenya-cs-ruku-castigates-gachagua-over-cousin-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cs-ruku-castigates-gachagua-over-cousin-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: CS Ruku Castigates Gachagua Over &#8216;Cousin&#8217; Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has criticized former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over his controversial &#8220;shareholding&#8221; and &#8220;cousins&#8221; remarks, warning that such rhetoric is a dangerous throwback to divisive, ethnic-based politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking in Ngando, Dagoretti South, during the distribution of food and bedding to families displaced by a recent fire, Ruku said President William Ruto is committed to serving all Kenyans equally regardless of tribe or region<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;That kind&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508080355.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 Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku has criticized former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over his controversial &#8220;shareholding&#8221; and &#8220;cousins&#8221; remarks, warning that such rhetoric is a dangerous throwback to divisive, ethnic-based politics. Speaking in Ngando, Dagoretti South, during the distribution of food and bedding to families displaced by a recent fire, Ruku said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":204257,"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":[258,256,41307,9951,36131,4688,430,257,9469,51809,254],"class_list":["post-204256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-castigates","tag-cousin","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-remarks","tag-ruku","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\/204256","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=204256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}