{"id":2078,"date":"2025-01-15T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:45:41","slug":"oscar-sudi-to-justin-muturi-resign-instead-of-blackmailing-the-government-over-sons-abduction-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/oscar-sudi-to-justin-muturi-resign-instead-of-blackmailing-the-government-over-sons-abduction-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Sudi to Justin Muturi: &#8220;Resign Instead of Blackmailing the Government Over Son\u2019s Abduction Claims&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi, Kenya, January 15- Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has dismissed allegations by Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi linking the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to his son\u2019s alleged abduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement on January 15, 2025, Sudi accused Muturi of attempting to blackmail the government and called for his resignation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis desperate move, coming as your political career declines, is a clear attempt at blackmail. If your son, who happens to be my agemate, was arrested, was it without reason? There are many professionals who can serve the country with more zeal. You can step aside,\u201d Sudi posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudi\u2019s remarks follow Muturi\u2019s claims that his son, Leslie Muturi, was kidnapped on June 22, 2024, by armed, hooded gangsters along Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi and later released after intervention by President William Ruto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his statement, Muturi detailed how the President contacted NIS Director General Noordin Haji, who admitted Leslie was in their custody and ordered his release. Leslie was freed within an hour of the President&#8217;s directive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudi, however, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated and misleading, suggesting they were part of an attempt by Muturi to gain political mileage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, Kenya, January 15- Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi has dismissed allegations by Public Service Cabinet Secretary Justin Muturi linking the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to his son\u2019s alleged abduction. In a statement on January 15, 2025, Sudi accused Muturi of attempting to blackmail the government and called for his resignation. \u201cThis desperate move, coming as your political career declines, is a clear attempt at blackmail. If your son, who happens to be my agemate, was arrested, was it without reason? There are many professionals who can serve the country with more zeal. You can step aside,\u201d Sudi posted on X. Sudi\u2019s remarks follow Muturi\u2019s claims that his son, Leslie Muturi, was kidnapped on June 22, 2024, by armed, hooded gangsters along Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi and later released after intervention by President William Ruto. In his statement, Muturi detailed how the President contacted NIS Director General Noordin Haji, who admitted Leslie was in their custody and ordered his release. Leslie was freed within an hour of the President&#8217;s directive. Sudi, however, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated and misleading, suggesting they were part of an attempt by Muturi to gain political mileage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}