{"id":208772,"date":"2025-10-02T19:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-500-sports-men-and-women-to-be-recruited-in-discipline-services-president-ruto-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:36:18","slug":"kenya-500-sports-men-and-women-to-be-recruited-in-discipline-services-president-ruto-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-500-sports-men-and-women-to-be-recruited-in-discipline-services-president-ruto-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 500 Sports Men and Women to Be Recruited in Discipline Services, President Ruto Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Five hundred sportsmen and women will be hired into various discipline services to enhance talent and secure life after sport, President William Ruto has directed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Head of State gave the orders on Thursday, October 2, when hosting Kenya&#8217;s Athletics team at State House for a breakfast and reward ceremony after a successful tour in the Tokyo World Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">For a long period, the discipline services have acted as a sports hub, especially in the field of athletics, where talent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510020371.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 Five hundred sportsmen and women will be hired into various discipline services to enhance talent and secure life after sport, President William Ruto has directed. The Head of State gave the orders on Thursday, October 2, when hosting Kenya&#8217;s Athletics team at State House for a breakfast and reward ceremony after a successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208773,"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":[258,256,17671,4688,430,6801,257,6186,2450,11613,11238,7155,254,8045,6524],"class_list":["post-208772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-discipline","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-men","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-president","tag-recruited","tag-ruto","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-women"],"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\/208772","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=208772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}