{"id":215335,"date":"2025-11-30T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-16-arrested-after-attack-on-mp-kaluma-during-kasipul-by-election\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:49:14","slug":"kenya-16-arrested-after-attack-on-mp-kaluma-during-kasipul-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-16-arrested-after-attack-on-mp-kaluma-during-kasipul-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 16 Arrested After Attack On MP Kaluma During Kasipul By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Sixteen suspected armed thugs were arrested on Thursday in Rachuonyo, Homa Bay County, following a police manhunt triggered by an attack on Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma during the Kasipul Constituency by-election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The incident occurred yesterday, 27th November 2025, at Agoro Sare Primary School polling station, where unidentified attackers reportedly confronted the legislator amid ongoing voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The assault prompted the National Police Service to launch a rapid, multi-agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280384.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 Sixteen suspected armed thugs were arrested on Thursday in Rachuonyo, Homa Bay County, following a police manhunt triggered by an attack on Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma during the Kasipul Constituency by-election. The incident occurred yesterday, 27th November 2025, at Agoro Sare Primary School polling station, where unidentified attackers reportedly confronted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215336,"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":[258,256,4304,1398,9913,52995,52975,4688,430,257,254],"class_list":["post-215335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-attack","tag-byelection","tag-kaluma","tag-kasipul","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","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\/215335","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=215335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}