{"id":18482,"date":"2020-09-16T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=18482"},"modified":"2020-09-16T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T09:59:55","slug":"kenyan-police-officers-told-to-buy-their-own-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/16\/kenyan-police-officers-told-to-buy-their-own-uniforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Police Officers &#8216;Told To Buy Their Own Uniforms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A section of police officers in Kenya&#8217;s capital, Nairobi, have been buying their own uniforms from civilian tailors to comply with an alleged order to wear new-look uniforms despite lack of supplies, local media report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police officers were reportedly told to wear the new uniforms starting on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some officers who reported to work in the old uniform were turned back, the Daily Nation and Standard newspapers report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Police Service and the interior ministry have not responded to the reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police officers interviewed told reporters that they had not been issued with the new-look uniforms, but were directed to civilian tailors who charge up to 5,000 Kenyan shillings ($50; \u00a340) for a pair, according to the Daily Nation newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some officers have opted to stay at home following the new directive because they lack funds to purchase the uniforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new persian blue uniforms were launched in 2018 as part of police reforms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of police officers in Kenya&#8217;s capital, Nairobi, have been buying their own uniforms from civilian tailors to comply with an alleged order to wear new-look uniforms despite lack of supplies, local media report. The police officers were reportedly told to wear the new uniforms starting on Monday. Some officers who reported to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":18483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18484,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions\/18484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}