{"id":77183,"date":"2022-12-13T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards"},"modified":"2022-12-13T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:16:43","slug":"ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards","title":{"rendered":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS) for services to Kenya and the world. Among those who were awarded are Prof Washington Ochieng, Prof Phoebe Okowa and Dr Moses Langat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank President William Ruto for conferring on some distinguished Kenyan professionals in the UK the national honour of Elder of the Burning Spear EBS for services to Kenya and the world,&#8221; they tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take a bow Prof Washington Ochieng, Prof Phoebe Okowa and Dr Moses Langat.&#8221; He also awarded Kenya&#8217;s High Commissioner Manoah Esipisu with an Elder of the Burning Spear for service in diplomacy and public affairs.<\/p>\n<p>He awarded Mission staff Martin Owuor and Nancy Diana with Order of the Grand Warrior (OGWs) for their role in the campaign to remove Kenya from the High-Risk Area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are also humbled and grateful to President for similarly honouring HC MEsipisu with an EBS for service in diplomacy and public affairs,&#8221; Kenya High Commission in London tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And our Mission staff Martin Owuor and Nancy Diana with OGWs for their role in the campaign to remove Kenya from the High-Risk Area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS) for services to Kenya and the world. Among those who were awarded are Prof Washington Ochieng, Prof Phoebe Okowa and Dr Moses Langat. &#8220;We thank President William Ruto for conferring on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":77182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-77183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"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>Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Sp ...\" \/>\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\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Sp ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\" \/>\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=\"2022-12-13T17:13:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-13T17:16:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"621\" \/>\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\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-13T17:13:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-13T17:16:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\"},\"wordCount\":217,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\",\"name\":\"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-13T17:13:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-13T17:16:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Sp ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":621,\"caption\":\"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards - kenya","description":"President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Sp ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards","og_description":"President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Sp ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-13T17:13:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-13T17:16:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":621,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards","datePublished":"2022-12-13T17:13:55+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-13T17:16:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards"},"wordCount":217,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Kenya","Kenya"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards","name":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-13T17:13:55+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-13T17:16:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President William Ruto has awarded Kenyan Professionals in the United Kingdom with the honour of Elder of the Burning Sp ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670939050.35.jpg","width":1000,"height":621,"caption":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/ruto-awards-kenyan-professionals-in-uk-with-national-awards#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ruto awards Kenyan professionals in UK with national awards"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}