{"id":241785,"date":"2026-08-22T06:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-to-skip-ncic-summons-says-he-will-be-out-of-country\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T06:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:53:25","slug":"kenya-gachagua-to-skip-ncic-summons-says-he-will-be-out-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-to-skip-ncic-summons-says-he-will-be-out-of-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua to Skip NCIC Summons, Says He Will Be Out of Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will not appear before the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) on August 27 after informing the commission that he will be out of the country on a pre-planned foreign trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Through his lawyers, Gachagua said his trip had been scheduled and publicly known before the commission issued the summons requiring him to appear at 2pm on August 27 over alleged inflammatory remarks made at various public forums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a letter dated August 20,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210602.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 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua will not appear before the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) on August 27 after informing the commission that he will be out of the country on a pre-planned foreign trip. Through his lawyers, Gachagua said his trip had been scheduled and publicly known before the commission issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":241786,"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":[258,256,5042,36131,4688,430,14142,257,15094,254,11860],"class_list":["post-241785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-ncic","tag-news","tag-skip","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summons"],"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\/241785","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=241785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}