{"id":248596,"date":"2026-10-30T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-ruto-cannot-give-teachers-police-priority-in-affordable-housing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:00:16","slug":"kenya-high-court-ruto-cannot-give-teachers-police-priority-in-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-ruto-cannot-give-teachers-police-priority-in-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: High Court &#8211; Ruto Cannot Give Teachers, Police Priority in Affordable Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has ruled that President William Ruto&#8217;s announcements giving teachers and police officers priority in the allocation of affordable housing units cannot change the criteria set out in law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Justice Patricia Nyaundi Mande said the President&#8217;s announcements made on June 3 and September 13, 2025, had no legal effect because they were not supported by legislation or an established policy framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The case was filed by John Maina Ndegwa, Marshalls Tito Ongoya and two other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610290567.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 The High Court has ruled that President William Ruto&#8217;s announcements giving teachers and police officers priority in the allocation of affordable housing units cannot change the criteria set out in law. Justice Patricia Nyaundi Mande said the President&#8217;s announcements made on June 3 and September 13, 2025, had no legal effect because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248597,"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":[11579,258,256,6185,7712,6184,8522,4688,430,257,662,9570,11238,254,7113],"class_list":["post-248596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-affordable","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-give","tag-high","tag-housing","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-priority","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teachers"],"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\/248596","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=248596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}