{"id":3300,"date":"2025-01-19T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2025-01-19T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:30:34","slug":"dan-wanyama-urges-ruto-to-focus-on-western-as-mt-kenya-grows-distant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/dan-wanyama-urges-ruto-to-focus-on-western-as-mt-kenya-grows-distant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Wanyama Urges Ruto to Focus on Western as Mt. Kenya Grows Distant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Webuye West Member of Parliament Dan Wanyama has urged President William Ruto to redirect his attention to the Western Kenya region, citing increasing discontent in the Mt. Kenya area.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sunday at the Interdenominational Prayers held at Cheptais Boys\u2019 High School in Bungoma County, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) legislator suggested that the President should abandon the challenging political terrain in Mt. Kenya and focus on the more stable Mt. Elgon region in the West.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tukio.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Wanyama1-696x421.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wanyama argued that the recent merger between Musalia Mudavadi\u2019s Amani National Congress (ANC) and Ruto\u2019s UDA would serve as a lesson to the Mt. Kenya region, which he accused of ongoing entitlement.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that securing the Western region\u2019s support could be crucial for Ruto\u2019s re-election prospects, even without the backing of Mt. Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The MP also criticized former President Uhuru Kenyatta for his recent comments urging younger generations to continue fighting for their rights, suggesting that Kenyatta is attempting to undermine Ruto\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webuye West Member of Parliament Dan Wanyama has urged President William Ruto to redirect his attention to the Western Kenya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dan-Wanyama1-768x465-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}