{"id":110495,"date":"2025-02-16T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/senator-cheptumo-dies-after-an-illness-ruto-mourns-him-as-a-progressive-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T11:03:20","slug":"senator-cheptumo-dies-after-an-illness-ruto-mourns-him-as-a-progressive-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/senator-cheptumo-dies-after-an-illness-ruto-mourns-him-as-a-progressive-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Cheptumo dies after an illness, Ruto mourns him as a progressive leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16\u2014Baringo Senator William Cheptumo has passed away following an illness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto mourned Cheptumo as a \u201cprogressive leader dedicated to public service,\u201d praising his tireless efforts to transform Baringo County.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto further described Cheptumo as \u201cvocal, hardworking, and a tireless champion for the transformation of Baringo,\u201d adding that the senator\u2019s family, friends, and constituents remain in his thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Cheptumo, a vocal loyalist of President, had served as Baringo North MP before unseating Senator Gideon Moi of a UDA ticket in 2022. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16\u2014Baringo Senator William Cheptumo has passed away following an illness. President William Ruto mourned Cheptumo as a \u201cprogressive leader dedicated to public service,\u201d praising his tireless efforts to transform Baringo County. President Ruto further described Cheptumo as \u201cvocal, hardworking, and a tireless champion for the transformation of Baringo,\u201d adding that the senator\u2019s [&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-110495","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\/110495","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=110495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}