{"id":221192,"date":"2026-01-20T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kericho-ocs-taken-for-medical-check-after-tree-hugging-incident-at-station\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:59:00","slug":"kenya-kericho-ocs-taken-for-medical-check-after-tree-hugging-incident-at-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kericho-ocs-taken-for-medical-check-after-tree-hugging-incident-at-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kericho OCS Taken for Medical Check After Tree-Hugging Incident At Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Kasipul \u2014 <em>The Officer Commanding Station (OCS) at Sossiot Police Station in Kericho County has been referred for medical attention after he was found hugging a tree while on duty, with his superiors saying he appeared depressed and emotionally distressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The officer, identified as Chief Inspector Kennedy Wanjala, was discovered on Tuesday morning embracing a tree inside the station compound while in full uniform, in an incident that drew a crowd of curious members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">According to an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601200402.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>Kasipul \u2014 The Officer Commanding Station (OCS) at Sossiot Police Station in Kericho County has been referred for medical attention after he was found hugging a tree while on duty, with his superiors saying he appeared depressed and emotionally distressed. The officer, identified as Chief Inspector Kennedy Wanjala, was discovered on Tuesday morning embracing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":221193,"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":[258,256,15713,14345,4688,430,17601,7417,257,51718,254,10613,53455],"class_list":["post-221192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-check","tag-incident","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kericho","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-ocs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-station","tag-treehugging"],"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\/221192","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=221192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}