{"id":225818,"date":"2026-03-03T00:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-to-meet-funeral-costs-for-late-mp-ngeno-and-all-crash-victims\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:27:04","slug":"kenya-govt-to-meet-funeral-costs-for-late-mp-ngeno-and-all-crash-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-to-meet-funeral-costs-for-late-mp-ngeno-and-all-crash-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt to Meet Funeral Costs for Late MP Ng&#8217;eno and All Crash Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto says the government will cater for all the funeral expenses of the Emurua Dikirr MP Johanna Ng&#8217;eno and the five people who died in the crash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Ruto made the announcement when he condoled with the family of the late MP at their Karen home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The President said he learnt of the death of the MP and five other people with deep sorrow and a profound sense of loss, and described Ng&#8217;eno as a firm, hardworking and progressive leader who worked tirelessly for his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603020728.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 President William Ruto says the government will cater for all the funeral expenses of the Emurua Dikirr MP Johanna Ng&#8217;eno and the five people who died in the crash. Ruto made the announcement when he condoled with the family of the late MP at their Karen home. The President said he learnt of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225819,"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":[258,256,11509,7750,7945,4357,4688,430,8262,6508,257,48062,254,8402],"class_list":["post-225818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-costs","tag-crash","tag-funeral","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-late","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-ngeno","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victims"],"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\/225818","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=225818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}