{"id":113262,"date":"2025-04-08T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/former-chepalungu-mp-john-koech-has-died\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:05:41","slug":"former-chepalungu-mp-john-koech-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/former-chepalungu-mp-john-koech-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Chepalungu MP John Koech has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 8 \u2013 Former Chepalungu Member of Parliament John Koech has died.<\/p>\n<p>According to his family, died at a hospital in Nairobi while receiving treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Koech\u2019s political career is marked by multiple terms as MP for Chepalungu and various ministerial roles.<\/p>\n<p>He began his professional life as a high school teacher between 1973 and 1975, after which he became an education officer from 1976 to 1979.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His initial attempt to enter politics in 1974 was unsuccessful, but he eventually secured the Chepalungu parliamentary seat in the 1979 General Election.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 8 \u2013 Former Chepalungu Member of Parliament John Koech has died. According to his family, died at a hospital in Nairobi while receiving treatment.\u00a0 Koech\u2019s political career is marked by multiple terms as MP for Chepalungu and various ministerial roles. He began his professional life as a high school teacher between 1973 [&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-113262","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\/113262","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=113262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}