{"id":218519,"date":"2025-12-30T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-former-two-term-shinyalu-mp-daniel-lyula-khamasi-passes-at-79\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:04:46","slug":"kenya-former-two-term-shinyalu-mp-daniel-lyula-khamasi-passes-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-former-two-term-shinyalu-mp-daniel-lyula-khamasi-passes-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Former Two-Term Shinyalu MP Daniel Lyula Khamasi Passes At 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Former Shinyalu Member of Parliament Daniel Lyula Khamasi has died.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">He was 79 years old. The cause of his death has not been immediately confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">His passing was confirmed by Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa, who mourned the loss of a leader remembered for his dedication to Shinyalu Constituency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;I have received with deep sorrow the news of the passing of Hon. Daniel Khamasi, former MP for Shinyalu,&#8221; Barasa said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;He was a dedicated servant whose contribution to Shinyalu will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300133.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 Former Shinyalu Member of Parliament Daniel Lyula Khamasi has died. He was 79 years old. The cause of his death has not been immediately confirmed. His passing was confirmed by Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa, who mourned the loss of a leader remembered for his dedication to Shinyalu Constituency. &#8220;I have received with deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":218520,"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":[258,256,16869,4688,430,53276,53275,257,9871,53274,254,26260],"class_list":["post-218519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-daniel","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-khamasi","tag-lyula","tag-news","tag-passes","tag-shinyalu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-twoterm"],"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\/218519","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=218519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}