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Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has mounted a fierce defence of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta, warning leaders allied to President William Ruto to stop what he termed as intimidation, abuse and political blackmail against the former head of state.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking during a press briefing, Gachagua accused President Ruto of orchestrating attacks on Kenyatta through junior leaders, saying the former president was being targeted for exercising his constitutional right to engage in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has mounted a fierce defence of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta, warning leaders allied to President William Ruto to stop what he termed as intimidation, abuse and political blackmail against the former head of state. Speaking during a press briefing, Gachagua accused President Ruto of orchestrating attacks on Kenyatta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223438,"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":[5070,258,256,7820,36131,7612,4688,430,257,6378,11238,254,9543],"class_list":["post-223437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defends","tag-gachagua","tag-intimidation","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-political","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uhuru"],"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\/223437","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=223437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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