{"id":7702,"date":"2022-05-20T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2022-05-20T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T07:57:10","slug":"meru-residents-raise-concerns-over-politicians-writtings-on-walls-in-meru-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7702","title":{"rendered":"Meru Residents raise concerns over politicians writtings on walls in Meru Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several Meru residents have expressed concerns about politicians inscribing ugly writings on walls and public places in Meru Town.According to Mary Karendi, a businesswoman in Gakoromone, politicians should make use of digital campaign avenues to communicate to voters.&#8221;Nobody takes you seriously when you go painting your name on walls, roads and public toilets. We confuse you for a &#8216;chokora&#8217;. It makes our town look ugly.&#8221; Karendi says.&#8221;If you don&#8217;t have money for campaigns, just start fundraising now. In 5 years you will have convinced enough friends to support your bid. Then you can contest in 2027.&#8221; says Mr. Joe Mweteri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mcaaaa-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mcaaaa-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mcaaaa-1-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mcaaaa-1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Meru residents have expressed concerns about politicians inscribing ugly writings on walls and public places in Meru Town.According to Mary Karendi, a businesswoman in Gakoromone, politicians should make use of digital campaign avenues to communicate to voters.&#8221;Nobody takes you seriously when you go painting your name on walls, roads and public toilets. We confuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","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\/2022\/05\/mcaaaa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7705,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}