{"id":206684,"date":"2025-09-10T06:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-to-partner-with-boda-boda-operators-to-empower-the-youth\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:28:48","slug":"kenya-govt-to-partner-with-boda-boda-operators-to-empower-the-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-to-partner-with-boda-boda-operators-to-empower-the-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt to Partner With Boda Boda Operators to Empower the Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to working hand in hand with boda boda operators to reform, professionalise, and protect the sector while safeguarding riders&#8217; right to earn a dignified living.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He called on all road users to respect riders while cautioning against reckless behaviour and the few criminal elements that continue to tarnish the industry&#8217;s image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kindiki further announced that President William Ruto has suspended the contested&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509090568.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 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to working hand in hand with boda boda operators to reform, professionalise, and protect the sector while safeguarding riders&#8217; right to earn a dignified living. He called on all road users to respect riders while cautioning against reckless behaviour and the few criminal elements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206685,"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":[258,256,21852,7924,4357,4688,430,257,6169,6536,254,6276],"class_list":["post-206684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boda","tag-empower","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-operators","tag-partner","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/206684","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=206684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}