{"id":241278,"date":"2026-08-17T06:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kindiki-fires-back-at-gachagua-in-blistering-response-to-voice-jibes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:43:22","slug":"kenya-kindiki-fires-back-at-gachagua-in-blistering-response-to-voice-jibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kindiki-fires-back-at-gachagua-in-blistering-response-to-voice-jibes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kindiki Fires Back At Gachagua in Blistering Response to Voice Jibes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nairobi \u2014 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has vowed to politically dismantle his predecessor Rigathi Gachagua, daring him to continue attacking him as the increasingly bitter battle for influence in the Mount Kenya region gathers pace ahead of the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Kindiki&#8217;s broadside came after Gachagua repeatedly mocked his voice, turning the Deputy President&#8217;s distinctive delivery into a subject of political ridicule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">But Kindiki says attacks on his voice are the extent of Gachagua&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608170110.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 Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has vowed to politically dismantle his predecessor Rigathi Gachagua, daring him to continue attacking him as the increasingly bitter battle for influence in the Mount Kenya region gathers pace ahead of the 2027 General Election. Kindiki&#8217;s broadside came after Gachagua repeatedly mocked his voice, turning the Deputy President&#8217;s distinctive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":241279,"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":[258,256,38871,8745,36131,41515,4688,430,43933,257,6985,254,10858],"class_list":["post-241278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blistering","tag-fires","tag-gachagua","tag-jibes","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kindiki","tag-news","tag-response","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voice"],"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\/241278","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=241278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}