{"id":19639,"date":"2026-01-12T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:22:07","slug":"kingpin-ruto-gachagua-battle-for-mt-kenya-regions-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19639\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingpin: Ruto, Gachagua battle for Mt Kenya region&#8217;s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0zgAy1a0fnVgqahGibqSJxtZuXvHVZJPbeZEBQin.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">President William Ruto lays a foundation stone for the construction of Karatina affordable housing project in Nyeri County, on January 12, 2026. [PCS]&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The battle for the Mt Kenya region vote basket continues even as President William Ruto insists on the need to go beyond politicking and focus on critical programmes of empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Fact\u2011first reporting that puts you at the heart of the newsroom. Subscribe for full access.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; President William Ruto lays a foundation stone for the construction of Karatina affordable housing project in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80,12394,2555,1347],"class_list":{"0":"post-19639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya","9":"tag-mt-kenya-vote-basketpresident-william-ruto","10":"tag-opposition","11":"tag-rigathi-gachagua"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}