{"id":247758,"date":"2026-10-21T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sakaja-sacks-mosiria-days-after-governor-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:30:27","slug":"kenya-sakaja-sacks-mosiria-days-after-governor-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sakaja-sacks-mosiria-days-after-governor-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sakaja Sacks Mosiria Days After Governor Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has removed outspoken county chief officer Geoffrey Mosiria from his citizen engagement role, days after he declared his intention to challenge his boss for the governor&#8217;s seat in the 2027 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The changes, contained in a circular dated Wednesday, October 21, 2026, reassign responsibilities previously handled by Mosiria to another senior county official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">County Secretary and Head of Public Service Machel Waikenda announced that Zipporah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610210578.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 Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has removed outspoken county chief officer Geoffrey Mosiria from his citizen engagement role, days after he declared his intention to challenge his boss for the governor&#8217;s seat in the 2027 General Election. The changes, contained in a circular dated Wednesday, October 21, 2026, reassign responsibilities previously handled by Mosiria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247759,"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":[258,256,10798,6192,4269,4688,430,55683,257,15479,31752,254],"class_list":["post-247758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-days","tag-governor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mosiria","tag-news","tag-sacks","tag-sakaja","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\/247758","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=247758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}