{"id":4988,"date":"2020-03-26T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2020-03-26T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:45:07","slug":"police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet","title":{"rendered":"Police deployed to enforce social distancing in Bomet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Police officers have been deployed to urban centres within Bomet County to ensure people observe social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>The officers are also out to ensure hotels, restaurants and eateries are observing directives by the Government in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.Bomet County Commissioner Geoffrey Omonding said those breaching any directive will be arrested by the teams of police across the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not taking any chance as a county and would do anything to ensure coronavirus does not hit the county,\u201d said Omonding.In a statement to the press, Omonding said police deployed are under strict instructions to deal harshly with those idling in groups.\u201cNo idling is allowed at this time, anyone found hanging around aimlessly will be arrested and locked up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Omonding said security was also contemplating on banning boda boda operators saying most of them do not observe directives.\u00a0\u201cIn case the virus is reported here, boda boda riders are most likely to spread it since they do not observe social distance. They are only interested in making money,\u201d said omonding.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe want the riders to stay away for a while and when the situation is under control they can come back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Police officers have been deployed to urban centres within Bomet County to ensure people observe social distancing. The officers are also out to ensure hotels, restaurants and eateries are observing directives by the Government in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.Bomet County Commissioner Geoffrey Omonding said those breaching any directive will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2111,7,8],"tags":[1477,939,1539],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-bomet","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police deployed to enforce social distancing in Bomet - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police officers have been deployed to urban centres within Bomet County to ensure people observe social distancing.The officers are\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police deployed to enforce social distancing in Bomet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police officers have been deployed to urban centres within Bomet County to ensure people observe social distancing.The officers are\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-26T15:45:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/xepsrrm07zuz505e7c7196ab6d2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police deployed to enforce social distancing in Bomet\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-26T15:45:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/03\/xepsrrm07zuz505e7c7196ab6d2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bomet\",\"Coronavirus\",\"COVID-19\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/police-deployed-to-enforce-social-distancing-in-bomet\",\"name\":\"Police deployed to enforce social distancing in Bomet - 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