{"id":2886,"date":"2025-03-18T07:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T07:40:00","slug":"kenyan-officials-rush-to-vietnam-in-last-minute-effort-to-save-margaret-nduta-from-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/kenyan-officials-rush-to-vietnam-in-last-minute-effort-to-save-margaret-nduta-from-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Officials Rush to Vietnam in Last-Minute Effort to Save Margaret Nduta from Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi, March 18-<strong> <\/strong>A team from Kenya\u2019s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, has urgently traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, in a bid to prevent the execution of Margaret Nduta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nduta, convicted of drug trafficking by a Vietnamese court, was sentenced to death and scheduled for execution on Monday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Citizen TV<\/em>, Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019Oei confirmed on March 17 that Kenya\u2019s ambassadors in Thailand had been dispatched to Vietnam to appeal for clemency for the 37-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sing\u2019Oei stated that the delegation would also seek to postpone the execution, allowing more time for diplomatic discussions between Kenya and Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This move follows a phone call between Sing\u2019Oei and Vietnam\u2019s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Nguyen Minh Hang, in which the Vietnamese official acknowledged the complexity of the case but assured that Kenya\u2019s appeal was being reviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, March 18- A team from Kenya\u2019s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, has urgently traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, in a bid to prevent the execution of Margaret Nduta. Nduta, convicted of drug trafficking by a Vietnamese court, was sentenced to death and scheduled for execution on Monday evening. According to Citizen TV, Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing\u2019Oei confirmed on March 17 that Kenya\u2019s ambassadors in Thailand had been dispatched to Vietnam to appeal for clemency for the 37-year-old. Sing\u2019Oei stated that the delegation would also seek to postpone the execution, allowing more time for diplomatic discussions between Kenya and Vietnam. This move follows a phone call between Sing\u2019Oei and Vietnam\u2019s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Nguyen Minh Hang, in which the Vietnamese official acknowledged the complexity of the case but assured that Kenya\u2019s appeal was being reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}