{"id":229964,"date":"2026-04-10T01:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-oburu-odinga-condemns-attack-on-vihiga-senator-calls-for-swift-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:51:55","slug":"kenya-oburu-odinga-condemns-attack-on-vihiga-senator-calls-for-swift-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-oburu-odinga-condemns-attack-on-vihiga-senator-calls-for-swift-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Oburu Odinga Condemns Attack On Vihiga Senator, Calls for Swift Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has strongly condemned the physical attack on Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi, describing the incident as unacceptable and urging authorities to investigate promptly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a statement, ODM party leader Oburu Oginga said he received news of the assault with a heavy heart and profound concern, extending his wishes for a full and speedy recovery to the senator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;The incident that occurred is not only unfortunate but utterly unacceptable in a civilised,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090641.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 The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has strongly condemned the physical attack on Vihiga Senator Godfrey Osotsi, describing the incident as unacceptable and urging authorities to investigate promptly. In a statement, ODM party leader Oburu Oginga said he received news of the assault with a heavy heart and profound concern, extending his wishes for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229965,"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":[258,256,1398,6137,7610,6834,4688,430,257,45074,6519,7798,254,24640,5903],"class_list":["post-229964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-calls","tag-condemns","tag-investigation","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-oburu","tag-odinga","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swift","tag-vihiga"],"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\/229964","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=229964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}