{"id":13455,"date":"2024-02-23T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13455"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:45:36","slug":"president-william-ruto-promises-another-house-a-job-and-ksh-5-million-cash-to-the-widow-of-late-marathon-world-record-holder-kelvin-kiptum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=13455","title":{"rendered":"President William Ruto promises another house, a job and Ksh.5 million cash to the widow of late marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/424977007_786552130160221_4820841437393223705_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/424977007_786552130160221_4820841437393223705_n.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/424977007_786552130160221_4820841437393223705_n-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 526px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in addition to securing employment for Kiptum&#8217;s widow Asenath Rotich, Ruto added that the bereaved wife would be provided with a new home and Ksh.5 million cash to support her young family of two children left behind by Kiptum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Head of State highlighted Kiptum&#8217;s humility, noting that he overcame all challenges facing him to become an icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The late Kiptum died in a road crash on Elgeyo Marakwet- Eldoret road.&nbsp;His Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana, 36, also died in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hakizimana, who had trained Kiptum since 2019, was laid to rest in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in addition to securing employment for Kiptum&#8217;s widow Asenath Rotich, Ruto added that the bereaved wife would be provided with a new home and Ksh.5 million cash to support her young family of two children left behind by Kiptum. The Head of State highlighted Kiptum&#8217;s humility, noting that he overcame all challenges facing him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/424977007_786552130160221_4820841437393223705_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13455\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}