{"id":9517,"date":"2021-03-04T07:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T07:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2021-03-04T07:54:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T07:54:18","slug":"ruto-ally-rashid-echesa-slaps-an-iebc-official-as-matungu-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=9517","title":{"rendered":"Ruto ally Rashid Echesa slaps an IEBC official as Matungu decides."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Sports CS Rashid Echesa caught on video slapping an IEBC official at Bulonga polling station in Matungu. In a video that has since gone viral, the former sports Cs and a close ally of Deputy president is heard asking the official why UDA agents have been locked out of the polling center. The confrontation rages on and a slap follows&#8230;see video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/iECBlhSu8VI\n<\/div><figcaption>\u201cYou were told by who? Our agents are outside the polling centre. You cannot keep our agents outside. Why are you chasing them outside?\u201d Echesa posed before planting a slap on the polling clerk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Okura, the IEBC official, is said to have stopped one of UDA\u2019s agents from making their way into the polling centre because they were not wearing a face mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidates battling it out for the Matungu MP seat include Alex Lanya of UDA, David Were of ODM, Peter Nabulindo of ANC, Christabel Murunga and Eugune Ambwere as independent candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Matungu by-election is closely contested between ODM&#8217;S David Were, UDA&#8217;s Alex Lanya and ANC&#8217;S Peter Nabulindo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what has been witnessed so far is reminiscent of what transpired in Msambweni as governor Joho slapped the Langata Mp Nixon Korir..see video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Governor Joho slaps Langata MP Nixon Korir into the smithereens. This is how to deal with these Tanga Tanga goons. Their main task today is to cause chaos in Msambweni and make it appears as if they were winning. They must be dealt with FIRMLY <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MsambweniDecides?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MsambweniDecides<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lvn7H4pgjF\">pic.twitter.com\/Lvn7H4pgjF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lord Abraham Mutai (@ItsMutai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsMutai\/status\/1338831045207134209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sports CS Rashid Echesa caught on video slapping an IEBC official at Bulonga polling station in Matungu. In a video that has since gone viral, the former sports Cs and a close ally of Deputy president is heard asking the official why UDA agents have been locked out of the polling center. The confrontation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9517","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\/9517","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=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9518,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/9518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}