{"id":206464,"date":"2025-09-07T06:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-activist-boniface-mwangi-declares-2027-presidential-bid-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:20:50","slug":"kenya-activist-boniface-mwangi-declares-2027-presidential-bid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-activist-boniface-mwangi-declares-2027-presidential-bid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Activist Boniface Mwangi Declares 2027 Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Human Rights activist Boniface Mwangi has announced his 2027 Presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mwangi made the announcement during Katiba day at an event graced by leading activists including former Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking at Ufungamano House Nairobi, Mwangi said his campaign would focus on dismantling what he termed as a broken system that burdens Kenyans with debt and excessive taxation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">\u201cI have selected this great day to announce my candidacy for the President of the Republic of Kenya in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040123.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>Human Rights activist Boniface Mwangi has announced his 2027 Presidential bid. Mwangi made the announcement during Katiba day at an event graced by leading activists including former Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana. Speaking at Ufungamano House Nairobi, Mwangi said his campaign would focus on dismantling what he termed as a broken system that burdens Kenyans with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670948:07c27754c37f0cf84c045b61066678d7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8956,258,256,10798,15522,7030,4688,430,15523,257,6438,254],"class_list":["post-206464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-boniface","tag-declares","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mwangi","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670948:07c27754c37f0cf84c045b61066678d7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206464","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=206464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}