{"id":247084,"date":"2026-10-14T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ichungwah-calls-gachagua-a-fool-over-gikomba-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:30:21","slug":"kenya-ichungwah-calls-gachagua-a-fool-over-gikomba-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ichungwah-calls-gachagua-a-fool-over-gikomba-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ichung&#8217;wah Calls Gachagua a &#8216;Fool&#8217; Over Gikomba Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung&#8217;wah has hit out at Democracy for Citizens party leader (DCP) Rigathi Gachagua, describing him as a &#8220;fool&#8221; over claims that Gikomba Market had been sold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Ichung&#8217;wah made the remarks in Parliament while defending the government&#8217;s efforts to clear sections of Nairobi&#8217;s rivers and improve drainage, arguing that Kenyans had been misled into believing that traders at Gikomba would lose their market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Somebody, who can only be described as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130452.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 National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung&#8217;wah has hit out at Democracy for Citizens party leader (DCP) Rigathi Gachagua, describing him as a &#8220;fool&#8221; over claims that Gikomba Market had been sold. Ichung&#8217;wah made the remarks in Parliament while defending the government&#8217;s efforts to clear sections of Nairobi&#8217;s rivers and improve drainage, arguing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247085,"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":[258,256,6137,8117,44354,36131,22190,47239,4688,430,257,254],"class_list":["post-247084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-claims","tag-fool","tag-gachagua","tag-gikomba","tag-ichungwah","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/247084","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=247084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}