{"id":208821,"date":"2025-10-03T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-murkomen-unveils-new-security-measures-for-higher-education-institutions-amid-rising-drug-abuse\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:37:13","slug":"kenya-murkomen-unveils-new-security-measures-for-higher-education-institutions-amid-rising-drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-murkomen-unveils-new-security-measures-for-higher-education-institutions-amid-rising-drug-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Murkomen Unveils New Security Measures for Higher Education Institutions Amid Rising Drug Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has unveiled new measures to strengthen security in and around colleges and universities, including the establishment of police posts near learning institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking on Thursday during the Jukwaa la Usalama forum in Nairobi, Murkomen said the initiative seeks to address growing concerns about drug abuse, violence, and insecurity within campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;At the sub-county level, student leaders and deans of students will now be involved in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030044.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 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has unveiled new measures to strengthen security in and around colleges and universities, including the establishment of police posts near learning institutions. Speaking on Thursday during the Jukwaa la Usalama forum in Nairobi, Murkomen said the initiative seeks to address growing concerns about drug abuse, violence, and insecurity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":208822,"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":[5099,258,256,6949,1632,8056,8057,4688,430,7305,44886,257,6678,4586,254,6777],"class_list":["post-208821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-education","tag-higher","tag-institutions","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-measures","tag-murkomen","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveils"],"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\/208821","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=208821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}