{"id":119374,"date":"2025-08-07T10:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/maina-kiai-appointed-khrc-board-chairperson\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:11:05","slug":"maina-kiai-appointed-khrc-board-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/maina-kiai-appointed-khrc-board-chairperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Maina Kiai appointed KHRC Board Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 \u2013 Huma Rights activist Maina Kiai has been appointed as the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) Board Chairperson taking over from Davinder Lamba.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the commission stated that Kiai will be deputized by Betty Okero, who continues in the role after serving alongside Lamba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKHRC salutes Lamba\u2019s dedication and strategic guidance. We look forward to a renewed and fearless chapter in defending human rights and freedoms,\u201d the body indicated in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission said Kiai assumes the leadership of the human rights sector at a time when the soul of the nation and region is under relentless assault from severe governance abuses manifest in gross violations of fundamental freedoms and rampant grand corruption.<\/p>\n<p>KHRC described him as a distinguished and bold icon in the fight for justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKiai wears the title of \u2018Chief,\u2019 after his installation as paramount chief of the Mende community for his human rights work in Sierra Leone.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 \u2013 Huma Rights activist Maina Kiai has been appointed as the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) Board Chairperson taking over from Davinder Lamba. In a statement, the commission stated that Kiai will be deputized by Betty Okero, who continues in the role after serving alongside Lamba. \u201cKHRC salutes Lamba\u2019s dedication and [&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-119374","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\/119374","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=119374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}