{"id":1350,"date":"2024-02-16T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/kelvin-kiptum-president-william-ruto-orders-house-for-kenyan-athletes-family\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:02:51","slug":"kelvin-kiptum-president-william-ruto-orders-house-for-kenyan-athletes-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kelvin-kiptum-president-william-ruto-orders-house-for-kenyan-athletes-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Kiptum: President William Ruto orders house for Kenyan athlete\u2019s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 \u2013 President William Ruto has sent engineers to the home of the late marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum, with instructions to build a three-bedroom house.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kiptum had planned to build a home for his family before he was killed in a road accident last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s office has denied local media reports that the house has to be ready by Kiptum\u2019s funeral next week.<\/p>\n<p>Excavations have already started, the family spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The house is being built on a four-acre farm which Kiptum had bought about 16km (10 miles) from the family home in the Rift Valley, where he was planning to construct his home later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three engineers here who are being supervised by senior government officials,\u201d family spokesperson Philip Kiplagat told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that the house will be ready by the end of the 40-day mourning period.<\/p>\n<p>Kiptum\u2019s funeral is due to take place on 24 February.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Kiptum, a 24-year-old father of two, was killed after the car he was driving veered into a ditch.<\/p>\n<p>His Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana also died in the accident while a woman passenger was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Kiptum\u2019s father has called for an investigation, saying that four unidentified men had visited his son days before his accident.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are currently in police custody for questioning after being arrested, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Kiptum\u2019s death, just four months after he broke the marathon world record, shocked Kenya and the world of athletics.<\/p>\n<p>He had been planning to attempt to become the first person to run a marathon in under two hours at the Rotterdam marathon in April.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 \u2013 President William Ruto has sent engineers to the home of the late marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum, with instructions to build a three-bedroom house. Kiptum had planned to build a home for his family before he was killed in a road accident last Sunday. The president\u2019s office has denied [&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-1350","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\/1350","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=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}