{"id":109200,"date":"2025-01-31T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/govt-to-issue-update-on-munyakho-facing-death-sentence-in-saudi\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:03:14","slug":"govt-to-issue-update-on-munyakho-facing-death-sentence-in-saudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-to-issue-update-on-munyakho-facing-death-sentence-in-saudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to issue update on Munyakho facing death sentence in Saudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government says it will in the next few days provide a progress report to the public on the matter involving Stephen Munyakho.<\/p>\n<p>Munyakho is facing execution in Saudi Arabia for the murder of a Yemeni man in the year 2011. In a brief post on X, Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019oei said the government is actively pursuing the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to inform that we shall provide a progress report to the public on this matter in the next few days\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Munyakho has been in jail for the last 13 years. He was scheduled to be executed on November 26th 2024, but this was postponed after Kenya reached out to the Saudi Authorities for consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Stevo\u2019s family continues to appeal for support to raise Ksh 150 million required to secure a pardon from the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>As at July last year, the family had through the public appeal only managed to raise Ksh11 million.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview with Citizen TV, Munyakho\u2019s mother, Dorothy Kweyu, a veteran journalist, said her son was remorseful and continues to plead for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/govt-to-issue-update-on-munyakho-facing-death-sentence-in-saudi\/\">Gov\u2019t to issue update on Munyakho facing death sentence in Saudi<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government says it will in the next few days provide a progress report to the public on the matter involving Stephen Munyakho. Munyakho is facing execution in Saudi Arabia for the murder of a Yemeni man in the year 2011. In a brief post on X, Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019oei said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}