{"id":916757,"date":"2022-01-16T13:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T13:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/16\/nairobians-raise-concerns-after-allegedly-receiving-sms-invitations-to-rutos-jacaranda-rally\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T13:17:59","slug":"nairobians-raise-concerns-after-allegedly-receiving-sms-invitations-to-rutos-jacaranda-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/nairobians-raise-concerns-after-allegedly-receiving-sms-invitations-to-rutos-jacaranda-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobians Raise Concerns After Allegedly Receiving SMS Invitations to Ruto&#8217;s Jacaranda Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2dcb52d3b7314ddf8a7a125a88d86e1d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DP Ruto on a campaign trail in Nairobi<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Nairobi city County who reside within the precincts of Jacaranda grounds in Embakasi have raised concerns over the safety of their personal information held by third party telecommunication networks after they received invitation messages to deputy President William Ruto&#8217;s political event that will be held in later today from a source claims to be Francis Mureithi.<\/p>\n<p>The terrified locals who approached blogger blogger Robert Alai to amplify their fears on social media are seeking answers on how their phone numbers were accessed and on whose authority given that the country&#8217;s laws governing data safety by third parties is very clear.<\/p>\n<p>The contacted victims who have since shared sample screenshots claim that they attempted to find the contacts that passed the message to them but it was not accessible making it difficult to authenticate the source of the message.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/71911043ca584ed3922f9acc531f81df\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From the screenshots circulating on social media, the source requested locals to avail themselves to Jacaranda grounds by 10 a.m. today where the deputy president will address a mammoth crowd.<\/p>\n<p>As at now, the deputy president is still attending the Sunday service at PCEA Neena parish-Pipeline in Embakasi South after which he will need his foot soldiers to Jacaranda grounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7c96e9f003c041e1af8f13f19fd65be7\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertAlai\/status\/1482610910967570439?t=woL0BK1clncRF75dZee_iQ&amp;s=19\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertAlai\/status\/1482610910967570439?t=woL0BK1clncRF75dZee_iQ&amp;s=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Isaac_Adungo (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\">\nJacaranda<br \/>\nNairobi<br \/>\nNairobians<br \/>\nPCEA<br \/>\nRobert Alai<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DP Ruto on a campaign trail in Nairobi Residents of Nairobi city County who reside within the precincts of Jacaranda grounds in Embakasi have raised concerns over the safety of their personal information held by third party telecommunication networks after they received invitation messages to deputy President William Ruto&#8217;s political event that will be held [&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-916757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916757","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=916757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}