{"id":17414,"date":"2025-03-19T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17414"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:05:28","slug":"university-student-to-face-full-trial-over-fake-funeral-image-of-president-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17414","title":{"rendered":"University Student to Face Full Trial Over Fake Funeral Image of President Ruto."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-12.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-12-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>university student, David Oaga Mokaya<\/strong>, will face a full trial over charges of <strong>publishing false information<\/strong> after allegedly sharing an <strong>altered image of a funeral procession<\/strong> with a misleading caption on <strong>social media<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court confirmed on <strong>Wednesday<\/strong> that the <strong>Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)<\/strong> had not issued instructions to withdraw the case, setting the stage for a <strong>hearing on May 29, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mokaya, through lawyer <strong>Danstan Omari<\/strong>, had sought clarification on whether <strong>President William Ruto<\/strong> would be called to testify. The <strong>Law Society of Kenya (LSK)<\/strong> also questioned the <strong>jurisdiction<\/strong> of the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the prosecution, Mokaya allegedly posted the <strong>edited image on his X account, &#8220;Landlord @bozgabi,&#8221; on November 13, 2024<\/strong>. The image depicted a <strong>casket draped in the Kenyan flag, escorted by military officers in ceremonial uniforms<\/strong>, falsely implying that it was <strong>President Ruto\u2019s body<\/strong> leaving a funeral home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A university student, David Oaga Mokaya, will face a full trial over charges of publishing false information after allegedly sharing an altered image of a funeral procession with a misleading caption on social media. The court confirmed on Wednesday that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had not issued instructions to withdraw the case, setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17415,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-3-12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414","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=17414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17416,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17414\/revisions\/17416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}