{"id":243540,"date":"2026-09-07T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-uda-intensifies-kisii-mobilisation-as-faruk-kibet-counters-matiangi-ahead-of-2027\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:27:46","slug":"kenya-uda-intensifies-kisii-mobilisation-as-faruk-kibet-counters-matiangi-ahead-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-uda-intensifies-kisii-mobilisation-as-faruk-kibet-counters-matiangi-ahead-of-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Uda Intensifies Kisii Mobilisation As Faruk Kibet Counters Matiang&#8217;i Ahead of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Kisii \u2014 President William Ruto&#8217;s aide Faruk Kibet has stepped up UDA mobilisation activities in the Gusii region as the ruling party seeks to consolidate its support ahead of the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Kibet has made several visits to Kisii County in recent months, leading empowerment programmes targeting youth, women and boda boda operators as UDA seeks to strengthen its grassroots networks in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking during an empowerment forum in Kitutu Chache North, Kibet said the Kenya Kwanza&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609070035.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>Kisii \u2014 President William Ruto&#8217;s aide Faruk Kibet has stepped up UDA mobilisation activities in the Gusii region as the ruling party seeks to consolidate its support ahead of the 2027 General Election. Kibet has made several visits to Kisii County in recent months, leading empowerment programmes targeting youth, women and boda boda operators as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":243541,"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":[258,256,7019,53114,55367,8013,4688,430,44616,9126,11798,8931,257,254,38657],"class_list":["post-243540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-counters","tag-faruk","tag-intensifies","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kibet","tag-kisii","tag-matiangi","tag-mobilisation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uda"],"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\/243540","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=243540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}