{"id":239339,"date":"2026-07-23T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-murkomen-accuses-gachagua-of-plotting-militia-ahead-of-2027-polls\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:51:42","slug":"kenya-murkomen-accuses-gachagua-of-plotting-militia-ahead-of-2027-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-murkomen-accuses-gachagua-of-plotting-militia-ahead-of-2027-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Murkomen Accuses Gachagua of Plotting Militia Ahead of 2027 Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has accused the Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua of attempting to recruit a militia ahead of the 2027 General Election under the guise of protecting votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Murkomen&#8217;s remarks come after Gachagua said lessons from the recent Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election had shown Kenyans that voting alone is not enough and that citizens must also protect their ballots until the final results are announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">But the Interior CS&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230432.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 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has accused the Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) leader Rigathi Gachagua of attempting to recruit a militia ahead of the 2027 General Election under the guise of protecting votes. Murkomen&#8217;s remarks come after Gachagua said lessons from the recent Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election had shown Kenyans that voting [&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":[5070,258,256,7019,36131,4688,430,460,44886,257,12596,8059,254],"class_list":["post-239339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-militia","tag-murkomen","tag-news","tag-plotting","tag-polls","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239339","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=239339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239339\/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=239339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}