{"id":32816,"date":"2017-02-25T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-three-suspected-remnants-of-sabaot-land\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T13:26:47","slug":"kenya-three-suspected-remnants-of-sabaot-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-three-suspected-remnants-of-sabaot-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya:Three suspected remnants of Sabaot Land Defence Force lynched in Mt Elgon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected remnants of the Sabaot Land Defence Force were on Friday lynched by irate residents in Cheptais, Mt Elgon.<\/p>\n<p>The angry residents also torched the suspects&#8217; houses.<\/p>\n<p>According to the residents the three youths allegedly killed an elderly man whose body was found in Mt Elgon forest.<\/p>\n<p>The residents say the elderly man was abducted by the suspects who wanted to kick him out of his land.<\/p>\n<p>Cheptais police boss Ezekiel Kiche said the three were hunted down, seized by angry villagers before they were stoned to death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigation is ongoing, the law does not allow mob justice they should have arrested them and handed them to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said security personnel have been deployed in the area to stop further killings.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kiche added that two other suspects are receiving treatment in hospital while 10 youths have been arrested and are being held at Cheptais Police Station.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18468 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/elgon.jpg\" alt=\"Cheptais residents mill around the body of a lynched youth suspected to be a remnant of the Sabaot Land Defense Force on February 24, 2017. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Daily Nation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected remnants of the Sabaot Land Defence Force were on Friday lynched by irate residents in Cheptais, Mt Elgon. The angry residents also torched the suspects&#8217; houses. According to the residents the three youths allegedly killed an elderly man whose body was found in Mt Elgon forest. The residents say the elderly man was [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816","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=32816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}