{"id":28258,"date":"2016-09-02T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-former-cabinet-minister-william-ole-ntimama\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:12:04","slug":"kenya-former-cabinet-minister-william-ole-ntimama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-former-cabinet-minister-william-ole-ntimama\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Former Cabinet Minister William ole Ntimama dies at his Narok home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Veteran politician and former powerful minister from Maasailand William Ronkorua ole Ntimama is dead.}<\/p>\n<p>The de-facto leader of the Maasai passed away at 10.30 pm Thursday night and a family source said the body was taken to Lee Funeral Home.<\/p>\n<p>According to Narok County Police Commander Jillo Galgalo, Mr Ntimama had been receiving treatment for an illness in the last one month from his home.<\/p>\n<p>The late Ntimama died at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p>He served as chairman of the Narok County Council for 15 years and 25 years as MP and minister.<\/p>\n<p>He notably served in the Local Government ministry and is remembered for telling the Kikuyu to &#8220;lie low like an envelope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He had an on and off relationship with retired President Daniel Moi with the latter detaining him at some point in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ntimama supported opposition leader Raila Odinga in the last elections but recently led leaders from the Maasai community to State House where he pledged to campaign for President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>He is said to have educated himself and has one of the biggest home libraries in Kenya.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14724 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ntimamash.jpg\" alt=\"Veteran politician William Ole Ntimama during President Uhuru Kenyatta&#039;s tour of Narok County on August 12, 2016. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Veteran politician and former powerful minister from Maasailand William Ronkorua ole Ntimama is dead.} The de-facto leader of the Maasai passed away at 10.30 pm Thursday night and a family source said the body was taken to Lee Funeral Home. According to Narok County Police Commander Jillo Galgalo, Mr Ntimama had been receiving treatment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28258"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28258"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}