{"id":210154,"date":"2025-10-17T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-railas-body-taken-to-parliament-ahead-of-funeral-service-at-nyayo-stadium\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:09:58","slug":"kenya-railas-body-taken-to-parliament-ahead-of-funeral-service-at-nyayo-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-railas-body-taken-to-parliament-ahead-of-funeral-service-at-nyayo-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Raila&#8217;s Body Taken to Parliament Ahead of Funeral Service At Nyayo Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 17<\/em> &#8212; The body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been moved to Parliament ahead of his State Funeral, to be held on Friday from 9:00 a.m. at Nyayo National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Top government officials, diplomats and Members of Parliament who did not view the body earlier will now be able to pay their final respects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In line with protocol for a leader of Odinga&#8217;s stature, his body is expected to lie in state before the funeral ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The public viewing of the late former Prime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170046.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, Kenya, Oct 17 &#8212; The body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been moved to Parliament ahead of his State Funeral, to be held on Friday from 9:00 a.m. at Nyayo National Stadium. Top government officials, diplomats and Members of Parliament who did not view the body earlier will now be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":210155,"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\/00671697:aed42332ceea3cfe964c24689a1b0f46:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7019,7978,7945,4688,430,257,35879,2412,13335,5188,254,9328],"class_list":["post-210154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-body","tag-funeral","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nyayo","tag-parliament","tag-railas","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671697:aed42332ceea3cfe964c24689a1b0f46:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210154","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=210154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}