{"id":214861,"date":"2025-11-25T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-silent-as-kenyan-driver-attacked-in-dubai\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:37:18","slug":"kenya-govt-silent-as-kenyan-driver-attacked-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-silent-as-kenyan-driver-attacked-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt Silent As Kenyan Driver Attacked in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 A chilling video that went viral on Monday has left Kenyans angry and demanding answers and pointing fingers at the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The footage, captured on a dashcam, shows a Kenyan taxi driver in Dubai being assaulted by his male passenger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The man shifts from one back seat to the other, and puts his hands on the driver in what looks like unwanted sexual advances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">When the driver rejects him, the passenger threatens him &#8220;you risk dying&#8221; if he refuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511250462.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 A chilling video that went viral on Monday has left Kenyans angry and demanding answers and pointing fingers at the government. The footage, captured on a dashcam, shows a Kenyan taxi driver in Dubai being assaulted by his male passenger. The man shifts from one back seat to the other, and puts his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":214862,"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":[258,256,5355,7768,3368,4357,4688,430,4524,257,7616,254],"class_list":["post-214861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacked","tag-driver","tag-dubai","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/214861","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=214861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}