{"id":2973,"date":"2020-04-18T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2020-04-18T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:39:22","slug":"respect-ruto-or-close-shop-eldoret-youth-demand-as-they-burn-copies-of-the-standard-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"Respect Ruto or close shop Eldoret youth demand as they burn copies of The Standard newspaper."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was drama in Eldoret town as youth descended on newspaper vendors, seized copies of the standard newspaper and set the ablaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The irate youth were infuriated by a headline carried by The standard saturday edition depicting Hon Ruto as a ceremonial deputy president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Big office no power&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200418-WA0089.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200418-WA0089.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200418-WA0089-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG-20200418-WA0089-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The story article has however angered DP Ruto\u2019s supporters who now see Baringo Senator Gideon Moi\u2019s hand in attempts to derail his 2022 presidential bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Moi family own the Standard Group, the parent company to Kenya Television Network (KTN), Standard Newspaper and a number of radio stations, including Radio Maisha <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The youth have henceforth vowed never to allow the sale of the standard newspaper if it continued disrespecting the DP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was drama in Eldoret town as youth descended on newspaper vendors, seized copies of the standard newspaper and set the ablaze. The irate youth were infuriated by a headline carried by The standard saturday edition depicting Hon Ruto as a ceremonial deputy president. &#8220;Big office no power&#8221; The story article has however angered DP &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}