{"id":239048,"date":"2026-07-19T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-blames-murkomen-for-alleged-violence-during-ol-kalou-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:42:08","slug":"kenya-gachagua-blames-murkomen-for-alleged-violence-during-ol-kalou-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-blames-murkomen-for-alleged-violence-during-ol-kalou-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Blames Murkomen for Alleged Violence During Ol Kalou Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nairobi \u2014 Democracy for the Citizens Party Leader Rigathi Gachagua has intensified his attacks on Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, accusing him of orchestrating the deployment of armed goons and rogue police officers to intimidate voters during the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Addressing the nation after Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) candidate Sammy Douglas Kamau Waweru was declared the winner, Gachagua dismissed Murkomen&#8217;s pledge to investigate the election&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170584.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Democracy for the Citizens Party Leader Rigathi Gachagua has intensified his attacks on Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen, accusing him of orchestrating the deployment of armed goons and rogue police officers to intimidate voters during the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election. Addressing the nation after Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) candidate Sammy Douglas [&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":[258,256,4305,8259,36131,8585,4688,430,44886,257,7517,254,2148],"class_list":["post-239048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-blames","tag-gachagua","tag-kalou","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-murkomen","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239048","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=239048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239048\/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=239048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}