{"id":915275,"date":"2022-01-11T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/breaking-azimio-la-umoja-politician-arrested-by-police-over-his-remarks-taken-in-for-questioning\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T11:12:49","slug":"breaking-azimio-la-umoja-politician-arrested-by-police-over-his-remarks-taken-in-for-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/breaking-azimio-la-umoja-politician-arrested-by-police-over-his-remarks-taken-in-for-questioning\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Azimio La Umoja Politician Arrested by Police Over His Remarks, Taken in For Questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/f0e1cc80843f464398b407ac847ab49e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The country has witnessed a rise in political temperatures over the last couple of days as various politicians angle to succeed president Uhuru Kenyatta when his tenure as the head of state comes to an end in August this year.<\/p>\n<p>As that happens,  allegations have started doing rounds with both deputy president William Ruto&#8217;s camp and Raila Odinga&#8217;s Azimio la umoja camp having seen fingers pointed at them.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the national police service has finally acted on orders of the office of public prosecution by arresting Kitutu Chache member of parliament Richard Onyonka and taken in for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker stands accused of  after making remarks that made inferences to the 2007 &#8211; 2008 post election violence, with some section of kenyans interpreting it to mean possible incitement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6f7d60540b784ac4952c041c2740f210\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The legislator has been moved to Kisii police station to shed more light on the allegations. This comes few days after the arrest of Meru county senator Mithika Linturi over similar allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Tetto (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has witnessed a rise in political temperatures over the last couple of days as various politicians angle to succeed president Uhuru Kenyatta when his tenure as the head of state comes to an end in August this year. As that happens, allegations have started doing rounds with both deputy president William Ruto&#8217;s camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}