{"id":125981,"date":"2025-12-04T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/speaker-wetangula-confirms-kwanza-mp-is-receiving-treatment-in-india\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:07:35","slug":"speaker-wetangula-confirms-kwanza-mp-is-receiving-treatment-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/speaker-wetangula-confirms-kwanza-mp-is-receiving-treatment-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Wetang\u2019ula confirms Kwanza MP is receiving treatment in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 4-National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang\u2019ula on Tuesday moved to dispel persistent rumours claiming that Kwanza MP Ferdinand Wanyonyi had died, assuring the House and the country that the legislator is alive and responding well to treatment in India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaker Wetang\u2019ula revealed that Wanyonyi had spent about a month at Nairobi Hospital, after which doctors recommended that he be flown to India for specialized care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to inform the House that Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi, the Member for Kwanza, is unwell. He was in Nairobi Hospital for about a month, and the doctors recommended that we take him to India,\u201d Wetang\u2019ula said.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker added that he had personally spoken to the MP through a conference call on Monday, and the Clerk of the National Assembly had also held a conversation with him on Tuesday morning both confirming that the Kwanza lawmaker is stable.<\/p>\n<p>Wetang\u2019ula condemned what he described as \u2018evil rumor mongers\u2019 in Wanyonyi\u2019s constituency who have been spreading claims that the MP had passed on and that Parliament was allegedly concealing the information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has not passed on; he\u2019s in a hospital in India and responding well to treatment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker urged the public to ignore the false reports and allow the Wanyonyi family the space and privacy needed as the MP continues his recovery abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Wanyonyi successfully retained his seat in the 2017 and 2022 general elections, representing FORD\u2011Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>He currently serves in \u00a0the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock and the National Government Constituencies Development Committee.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 4-National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang\u2019ula on Tuesday moved to dispel persistent rumours claiming that Kwanza MP Ferdinand Wanyonyi had died, assuring the House and the country that the legislator is alive and responding well to treatment in India. Speaker Wetang\u2019ula revealed that Wanyonyi had spent about a month at Nairobi Hospital, after [&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-125981","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\/125981","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=125981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}