{"id":8717,"date":"2022-08-12T06:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T06:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2022-08-12T06:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T06:13:44","slug":"former-police-boss-wins-mca-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=8717","title":{"rendered":"Former Police Boss wins MCA seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Tharaka Nithi county police boss Johnston Ipara Okasida is the Tongaren ward MCA elect.The retired cop is remembered by the people of Tharaka Nithi as friendly and down to earth officer but whose fierceness in dealing bandits and other miscreants is well documented.Ipara served in various senior positions in NPS including being the Officer in Charge of the Northern Corridor Transit Patrol Unit (NCTPU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FB_IMG_1660284598920-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FB_IMG_1660284598920-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FB_IMG_1660284598920-1-480x853.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 540px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tharaka Nithi county police boss Johnston Ipara Okasida is the Tongaren ward MCA elect.The retired cop is remembered by the people of Tharaka Nithi as friendly and down to earth officer but whose fierceness in dealing bandits and other miscreants is well documented.Ipara served in various senior positions in NPS including being the Officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8718,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/FB_IMG_1660284598920.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","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=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8720,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions\/8720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}