{"id":2979,"date":"2020-04-18T13:05:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2020-04-18T13:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:05:57","slug":"a-driver-who-drove-from-nairobi-to-homabay-with-an-empty-coffin-just-to-beat-the-curfew-turns-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2979","title":{"rendered":"A driver who drove from Nairobi to Homabay with an empty coffin just to beat the curfew turns positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A driver who drove from Nairobi to Homabay with an empty coffin just to beat the curfew turns positive*<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To beat the government&#8217;s stringent measures  put in place to help combat covid 19, a Homabay bound travelling party from Nairobi devised an ingenious means to beat the cops.<br>\nCS Kagwe, speaking while addressing the press at Afya House today  said the individuals duped police officers manning road blocks that they were headed to a funeral and even had a coffin aboard the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the CS Hon Kagwe, law enforcement officers in Homa Bay however opened the casket only to find it empty and immediately placed the group under quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe governor of Homa Bay informed me of a group of people who travelled from Nairobi in a private vehicle pretending that they were attending a funeral, fully equipped with an empty coffin. Those people travelled all the way from Nairobi to Homa Bay during this period when we have stopped movement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThanks to the Homa Bay administration, somebody got suspicious and opened the coffin (and found it empty). They were immediately put in quarantine and today, I can confirm, that the driver is positive. This person has now taken the disease to Homa Bay for very selfish reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cs has urged Kenyans to abide by the government directives and become disciplined, stating that \u2013 unless we do so \u2013 \u201cthis disease will finish us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya&#8217; s  confirmed cases now stand at 265.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver who drove from Nairobi to Homabay with an empty coffin just to beat the curfew turns positive* To beat the government&#8217;s stringent measures put in place to help combat covid 19, a Homabay bound travelling party from Nairobi devised an ingenious means to beat the cops. CS Kagwe, speaking while addressing the press &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2979","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\/2979","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2979\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}