{"id":185294,"date":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=185294"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:01:06","slug":"mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=185294","title":{"rendered":"Mudavadi Defends Ksh271M Hire of Trump Allies to Push Kenya\u2019s Agenda in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has come out strongly to defend its decision to hire a high-priced American lobbying firm to polish Kenya\u2019s image in Washington, D.C. In a 17-page press release issued on July 28, officials justified the $2.1 million (Ksh271 million) contract with Continental Strategy LLC, a firm stacked with Donald Trump insiders&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairobiwire.com\/2025\/08\/kenya-2-1m-lobbying-deal-washington-trump-allies.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has come out strongly to defend its decision to hire a high-priced American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us.jpg",997,567,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us-768x437.jpg",640,364,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us.jpg",640,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us.jpg",997,567,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us.jpg",997,567,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us.jpg",997,567,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us-825x567.jpg",825,567,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/185294-mudavadi-defends-ksh271m-hire-of-trump-allies-to-push-kenyas-agenda-in-the-us-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}