{"id":355952,"date":"2025-03-14T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=355952"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:20:58","slug":"british-man-killed-by-presidents-convoy-in-kenya-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/british-man-killed-by-presidents-convoy-in-kenya-hit-and-run\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"British man killed by president’s convoy in Kenya hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A British man has been killed in a hit-and-run incident involving a vehicle in the motorcade of Kenyan President William Ruto.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man, who has been named as 79-year-old Edgar Charles Frederick, died on Thursday after being struck in the accident on a main road in the capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police detained a driver, who has since been released on bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say he was driving a support vehicle that was travelling at the rear of President Ruto’s official convoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the police, the president’s detail had passed by the time the accident occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police spokesman Michael Muchiri told the BBC that Mr Frederick had been visiting Kenya to see his sister and nephew who are residents of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim’s next-of-kin have been informed, and a post-mortem is likely to be conducted later on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police said the driver, who failed to stop after the incident, would appear in court following an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been an uproar on social media following Thursday’s incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Kenyans are accustomed to roads being cleared for the presidential motorcade, this time around some have questioned why the convoy was so big and moving at such speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This not the first time a president’s or deputy president’s motorcade has killed or injured a pedestrian, and in a number of cases, members of the president’s travelling party have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some believe more attention is being paid to this latest case because the victim is a foreigner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for the UK High Commission said officials were aware of the reports and were seeking more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos posted on social media show a man in blue jeans and a light-coloured shirt lying bleeding on the road outside a busy shopping area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other pictures show the victim covered in a checked shawl, known locally as a Maasai Shuka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Muchiri told the BBC the vehicle belonged to the regional administration and was providing support to the presidential detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Ruto held events in the vicinity of the scene on Thursday as part of ongoing political engagements with the public in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOURCE: BBC NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A British man has been killed in a hit-and-run incident involving a vehicle in the motorcade of Kenyan President William Ruto. The man, who has been named as 79-year-old Edgar Charles Frederick, died on Thursday after being struck in the accident on a main road in the capital, Nairobi. Police detained a driver, who has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":355953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-1741945374.jpg?fit=800%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355960,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355952\/revisions\/355960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}