{"id":229596,"date":"2026-04-06T01:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-oyuu-several-knut-top-seats-unopposed-ahead-of-national-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:42:54","slug":"kenya-oyuu-several-knut-top-seats-unopposed-ahead-of-national-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-oyuu-several-knut-top-seats-unopposed-ahead-of-national-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Oyuu &#8211; Several KNUT Top Seats Unopposed Ahead of National Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Kisumu \u2014 KISUMU, Kenya Apr 3 &#8211; Kenya National Union of Teachers Secretary General Collins Oyuu has declared that several top union positions will go unopposed in the upcoming national elections, setting the stage for what appears to be a largely uncontested leadership transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking at Tom Mboya Labour College in Kisumu on the eve of Friday&#8217;s polls, Oyuu said the nomination exercise had been smooth, with all qualified candidates cleared in line with the union&#8217;s constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Oyuu described&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030308.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>Kisumu \u2014 KISUMU, Kenya Apr 3 &#8211; Kenya National Union of Teachers Secretary General Collins Oyuu has declared that several top union positions will go unopposed in the upcoming national elections, setting the stage for what appears to be a largely uncontested leadership transition. Speaking at Tom Mboya Labour College in Kisumu on the eve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229597,"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":[258,256,7019,821,4688,430,20794,6687,257,54087,8789,254,7319,54089],"class_list":["post-229596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-elections","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-knut","tag-national","tag-news","tag-oyuu","tag-seats","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-unopposed"],"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\/229596","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=229596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}