{"id":248753,"date":"2026-10-31T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-kenyan-pastor-victor-kanyari-was-not-killed-in-a-road-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:00:20","slug":"kenya-no-kenyan-pastor-victor-kanyari-was-not-killed-in-a-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-kenyan-pastor-victor-kanyari-was-not-killed-in-a-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No, Kenyan Pastor Victor Kanyari Was Not Killed in a Road Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>No, Kenyan pastor Victor Kanyari was not killed in a road accident<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A fake Citizen Digital news graphic claims Kenyan pastor Victor Kanyari died in a road accident. But the image is fabricated and uses an old photograph of a separate crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/277192829050031\/permalink\/27683091241366820\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1538984967954499&amp;id=100055290321621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mosesnabwire3\/photo\/7698420362836577549\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@opposition366\/photo\/7693116304680684818\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">circulating<\/a> in Kenya feature what appears to be a Citizen Digital breaking news alert, dated 5 October 2026. It claims that pastor <a href=\"https:\/\/thekenyatimes.com\/latest-kenya-times-news\/pastor-victor-kanyari-profile-career-education-and-net-worth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Kanyari<\/a> has died in a road accident along Kangundo Road in the capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610300539.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>No, Kenyan pastor Victor Kanyari was not killed in a road accident IN SHORT: A fake Citizen Digital news graphic claims Kenyan pastor Victor Kanyari died in a road accident. But the image is fabricated and uses an old photograph of a separate crash. Social media posts circulating in Kenya feature what appears to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248754,"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":[7264,258,256,55748,4688,430,4524,4327,257,7582,7414,254,23737],"class_list":["post-248753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kanyari","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-pastor","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victor"],"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\/248753","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=248753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}