{"id":29665,"date":"2026-03-23T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29665"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:45:26","slug":"kenyan-police-search-for-missing-former-minister","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyan-police-search-for-missing-former-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan police search for missing Former Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Kenya are investigating the disappearance of former Foreign Affairs Minister Raphael Tuju, amid concerns he may have been abducted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to his family, Tuju and his driver went missing on Saturday evening while travelling to a scheduled radio interview.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say his vehicle was later found abandoned with its hazard lights on along a road in Karen, an affluent suburb of Nairobi. Police added that attempts to reach him have been unsuccessful, as his phone is switched off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tuju, who has held several senior government positions, including serving as foreign minister, has recently been involved in a protracted legal dispute over the auction and takeover of his properties in Nairobi linked to an unsettled bank loan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are ongoing as authorities work to establish the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29666,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-29665","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Police in Kenya are investigating the disappearance of former Foreign Affairs Minister Raphael Tuju","published_date":"2026-03-23 17:01:56","news_description":"Police in Kenya are investigating the disappearance of former Foreign Affairs Minister Raphael Tuju","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29667,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29665\/revisions\/29667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}