{"id":955,"date":"2020-01-18T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=955"},"modified":"2020-01-18T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T14:47:58","slug":"nabongo-grounds-sealed-off-ruto-allies-yet-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/nabongo-grounds-sealed-off-ruto-allies-yet-to-show-up","title":{"rendered":"Nabongo grounds sealed off, Ruto allies yet to show up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have seald off Nabongo Grounds in Mumias town which was to host a rally dubbed, Western Economic Forum,\u00a0organised by politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto.\u00a0The leaders\u00a0are yet to arrive\u00a0in Mumias town ahead of their rally despite indicating yesterday that the rally will go on as planned and\u00a0that they would be at the grounds in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/saturday\/ytqhkzmdulor9po5e22b6b4b7a2e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Led by Mumias East MP Benjamin Washiali and former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale the leaders dismissed the move by police to cancel the rally, saying police had no capacity to cancel any gathering.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No chaos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police also dismissed as fake the reports indicating that a school bus heading to Bukhungu Stadium was set on fire in Mumias this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo bus has been torched as reported in social media, we are on top of everything and will not allow any breach of peace,\u201d said police report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/saturday\/ixqlwjsx3jyrmtw4cz5e22b5ee73344.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The fake news had indicated that rowdy youths had set ablaze school buses ferrying people for the the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI)\u00a0meeting at\u00a0Bukhungu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/saturday\/tylcbmrc8qzcls85e22b62e8d6ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Police in anti-riot gear have sealed off the\u00a0the venue of the cancelled parallel meeting with others patrolling\u00a0in Mumias town.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/saturday\/ursfkhuxgnabalytwvg5e22b60158748.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>It will be very difficult for the organisers of the rally\u00a0and their supporters to access the venue if the security deployed at the venue and the entire Mumias town is anything to go by.At Bukhungu Stadium, people have started trooping into the stadium to attend the BBI meeting, but the leaders are yet to arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have seald off Nabongo Grounds in Mumias town which was to host a rally dubbed, Western Economic Forum,\u00a0organised by politicians allied to Deputy President William Ruto.\u00a0The leaders\u00a0are yet to arrive\u00a0in Mumias town ahead of their rally despite indicating yesterday that the rally will go on as planned and\u00a0that they would be at the grounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8,12],"tags":[235,583,585],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-bbi","tag-mumias-town","tag-nabongo-grounds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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