{"id":920939,"date":"2022-01-30T20:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/30\/crowds-turns-chaotic-as-peter-munya-is-chased-away-by-irate-locals\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T20:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:35:01","slug":"crowds-turns-chaotic-as-peter-munya-is-chased-away-by-irate-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/crowds-turns-chaotic-as-peter-munya-is-chased-away-by-irate-locals\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds Turns Chaotic as Peter Munya is Chased Away by Irate Locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e1d49d3a15c64dd39eba78d84243bdb1\"\/>As the next general elections nears, aspirants who wish to run for various elective seats, have been campaigning vigorously so as to woe more people to support them.<\/p>\n<p>They have also been aligning themselves with popular parties and coalitions,with the hope of boosting their chances of being elected in August elections.<\/p>\n<p>There were dramatic scenes in Meru county,after Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya was heckled and chased away by irate locals.<\/p>\n<p>Video shared online shows Peter Munya in the middle of huge crowds pushing each other as the crowds shouted at him uncontrollably.It is not exactly known why the crowds turned hostile to him.<\/p>\n<p>Munya has already announced he will be running for Meru gubernatorial seat,which is being occupied by Kiraitu Murungi.<\/p>\n<p>There have been bitter exchanges between the two leaders,with Munya trying to make a come back after being be first governor of Meru ,after he was defeated by Murungi.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lemisosato\/videos\/1067063207359699\/<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: CarolineNews (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\">\nKiraitu Murungi<br \/>\nMeru<br \/>\nMunya<br \/>\nMurungi<br \/>\nPeter Munya<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the next general elections nears, aspirants who wish to run for various elective seats, have been campaigning vigorously so as to woe more people to support them. They have also been aligning themselves with popular parties and coalitions,with the hope of boosting their chances of being elected in August elections. There were dramatic scenes [&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-920939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920939","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=920939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}