{"id":7921,"date":"2021-05-30T21:14:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:14:32","slug":"a-chopper-has-crashed-shortly-after-dropping-off-raila-odinga-in-siaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/a-chopper-has-crashed-shortly-after-dropping-off-raila-odinga-in-siaya\/","title":{"rendered":"A chopper has crashed shortly after dropping off Raila Odinga in Siaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">A chopper that ferried ODM leader Raila Odinga to Siaya county where President Uhuru Kenyatta launched development projects on Sunday afternoon crashed shortly after dropping him and his entourage of four, marking a lucky escape on the first day of the Head of State\u2019s three-day visit to Nyanza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The Helicopter, Bell 407, Registration 5Y-PSM, had dropped Mr Odinga at Kudho Primary School in Usenge village, Onyinyore Sub-Location, South Gem location when it attempted to lift off to create space for other planes, but crashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The incident happened at 4.30pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Mr Odinga had accompanied the Head of State for the commissioning of the Wagai-Akala road.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"align--justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The ODM leader, accompanied by local leaders including Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyong\u2019o, had received the President at Kisumu International Airport where he arrived shortly after 3pm before they left in separate choppers for Gem, Siaya County.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Read the whole story on <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/counties\/siaya\/chopper-crashes-after-dropping-off-raila-in-siaya-3419576\"><strong>Nation<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chopper that ferried ODM leader Raila Odinga to Siaya county where President Uhuru Kenyatta launched development projects on Sunday afternoon crashed shortly after dropping him and his entourage of four, marking a lucky escape on the first day of the Head of State\u2019s three-day visit to Nyanza. &nbsp; The Helicopter, Bell 407, Registration 5Y-PSM,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1905,1975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-road-safety"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-23L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/chopper-crash-siaya-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1260%2C630&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}