{"id":1604,"date":"2022-11-29T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:04:02","slug":"nairobi-bar-owners-ask-for-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/nairobi-bar-owners-ask-for-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi bar owners ask for forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nairobi bar owners on Tuesday asked for forgiveness from &nbsp;President William Ruto, Governor Johnson Sakaja &nbsp;as well as residents of Nairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boniface Gachoka, secretary general of National Bar Owners Association (BAHLITA) said that most of their members have complied with the noise regulations in residential areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday &nbsp;we have come to ask forgiveness from the &nbsp;president, &nbsp;governor and Nairobi residents,\u201d Gachoka said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on the governor to establish a taskforce to investigate clubs that are &nbsp;&nbsp;breaking the noise regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that the bar closure has affected 3900 bars and 256,000 people has lost their jobs directly and indirectly so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BAHLITA said that their short term measure is to appoint an environmental expert so that bars can follow the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to concentrate on friendship with Nairobi residents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi bar owners on Tuesday asked for forgiveness from &nbsp;President William Ruto, Governor Johnson Sakaja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}