{"id":219331,"date":"2026-01-05T22:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-claims-minnesota-fraud-funded-rutos-campaign-asks-trump-to-act\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:24:29","slug":"kenya-gachagua-claims-minnesota-fraud-funded-rutos-campaign-asks-trump-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-claims-minnesota-fraud-funded-rutos-campaign-asks-trump-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Claims Minnesota Fraud Funded Ruto&#8217;s Campaign, Asks Trump to Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua has called on the US to expedite an ongoing probe into the Minnesota fraud scheme alleging the use of part of the proceeds in President William Ruto&#8217;s 2022 campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking during a Sunday church service at AIPCA Kiratina in Komothai, Githunguri Constituency, Kiambu County, the former Deputy President urged Washington to pursue the suspects with urgency, accusing the Kenyan government of shielding those involved through court orders that have frustrated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050459.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 DCP leader Rigathi Gachagua has called on the US to expedite an ongoing probe into the Minnesota fraud scheme alleging the use of part of the proceeds in President William Ruto&#8217;s 2022 campaign. Speaking during a Sunday church service at AIPCA Kiratina in Komothai, Githunguri Constituency, Kiambu County, the former Deputy President urged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":219332,"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":[6991,258,256,7065,4302,8117,8666,8222,36131,4688,430,53324,257,12640,254,6264],"class_list":["post-219331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asks","tag-campaign","tag-claims","tag-fraud","tag-funded","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-minnesota","tag-news","tag-rutos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"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\/219331","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=219331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}