{"id":238326,"date":"2026-07-09T05:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-labels-nairobi-a-city-of-shame-blames-ruto-and-sakaja-for-capitals-decline\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:19:55","slug":"kenya-gachagua-labels-nairobi-a-city-of-shame-blames-ruto-and-sakaja-for-capitals-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-labels-nairobi-a-city-of-shame-blames-ruto-and-sakaja-for-capitals-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Labels Nairobi a &#8216;City of Shame,&#8217; Blames Ruto and Sakaja for Capital&#8217;s Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has launched one of his strongest attacks yet on Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja and President William Ruto, accusing the two leaders of transforming the capital from the &#8220;Green City in the Sun&#8221; into a &#8220;city of shame&#8221; marked by insecurity, corruption and failing public services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In a statement issued after meeting a delegation of opinion leaders from Westlands led by lawyer Nelson Havi, Gachagua painted a bleak picture of the state of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080719.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 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has launched one of his strongest attacks yet on Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja and President William Ruto, accusing the two leaders of transforming the capital from the &#8220;Green City in the Sun&#8221; into a &#8220;city of shame&#8221; marked by insecurity, corruption and failing public services. In a statement [&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":[258,256,8259,10622,6603,14228,36131,4688,430,21939,259,257,11238,31752,14617,254],"class_list":["post-238326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-capitals","tag-city","tag-decline","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-labels","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-sakaja","tag-shame","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238326","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=238326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238326\/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=238326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}