{"id":337077,"date":"2011-03-25T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/kenya-athlete-jailed-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T07:10:06","slug":"kenya-athlete-jailed-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/kenya-athlete-jailed-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Athlete Jailed in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"26.8537484637\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>Mathews Ndanyi<\/p>\n<p>24 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>A Kenyan athlete has been in jail in Uganda for the last two months after he won a marathon race in the neighbouring country. Athletics Kenya yesterday confirmed that Daniel Kiplagat Sambu from Keiyo District has been in jail after he was convicted for being in Uganda illegally.<\/p>\n<p>He won the MTI Marathon race in Kampala but he was immediately arrested following confusion over his nationality. It was said he had claimed to be a Ugandan yet he was a Kenyan.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>AK Keiyo branch Chairman Daniel Komen was yesterday struggling to secure the release of the athlete through lawyers, but he wants the government to intervene and have him freed because he has already spent two months in jail.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103250059.html\" title=\"Kenya: Athlete Jailed in Uganda\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Athlete Jailed in Uganda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Mathews Ndanyi 24 March 2011 A Kenyan athlete has been in jail in Uganda for the last two months after he won a marathon race in the neighbouring country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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