{"id":238149,"date":"2026-07-05T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ps-omollo-calls-on-boda-boda-operators-to-reject-recruitment-as-goons-for-hire-shun-political-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:06:05","slug":"kenya-ps-omollo-calls-on-boda-boda-operators-to-reject-recruitment-as-goons-for-hire-shun-political-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ps-omollo-calls-on-boda-boda-operators-to-reject-recruitment-as-goons-for-hire-shun-political-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: PS Omollo Calls On Boda Boda Operators to Reject Recruitment As Goons-for-Hire, Shun Political Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Nairobi \u2014 Principal Secretary for Internal Security and National Administration Raymond Omollo has issued a stern warning against the use of boda boda operators to perpetrate political violence, saying the government will crack down on those recruiting riders into criminal gangs and those who participate in acts of goonism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The warning comes against the backdrop of rising incidents of politically linked violence and criminal activities involving suspected goons in different parts of the country,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030435.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 Principal Secretary for Internal Security and National Administration Raymond Omollo has issued a stern warning against the use of boda boda operators to perpetrate political violence, saying the government will crack down on those recruiting riders into criminal gangs and those who participate in acts of goonism. The warning comes against the backdrop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,21852,6137,54774,4688,430,257,10396,6169,6378,8960,6654,6945,254,2148],"class_list":["post-238149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boda","tag-calls","tag-goonsforhire","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-omollo","tag-operators","tag-political","tag-recruitment","tag-reject","tag-shun","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238149","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=238149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}