{"id":6375,"date":"2023-07-26T19:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/involvement.co.ke\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2023-07-26T19:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:29:40","slug":"police-disrupt-protesters-holding-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/police-disrupt-protesters-holding-vigil\/","title":{"rendered":"POLICE DISRUPT PROTESTERS HOLDING VIGIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>{Photo courtesy of COTAA}<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Samuel Owino<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police in Mombasa disrupted a vigil held at Uhuru <em>Gardens<\/em> on 26 July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters lit candles in honor of their fallen colleagues, a directive by the opposition leader, Raila Odinga. The police came and interrupted the meeting and sent them away. The national government had put police in various areas in fears that citizens may hold protests.<\/p>\n<p>There were also marches at Jacaranda gardens where they also held a vigil. They marched as they sang songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSisi ni wageni, hapa Nairobi, wanaua watu wetu, hapa Nairobi\u201d that translates to \u201cwe are visitors, here in Nairobi , they kill our people, here in Nairobi\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opposition leader, Raila Odinga visited patients at Mama Lucy Hospital during the vigils. The patients were victims of police brutality during last weeks protests.<\/p>\n<p>The nation remains confused as the political tensions rise and the citizens issues that seems to be snubbed by the national government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Photo courtesy of COTAA} &nbsp; By Samuel Owino &nbsp; Police in Mombasa disrupted a vigil held at Uhuru Gardens on 26 July 2023. The protesters lit candles in honor of their fallen colleagues, a directive by the opposition leader, Raila Odinga. The police came and interrupted the meeting and sent them away. The national government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}