{"id":16458,"date":"2015-02-10T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2015-02-10T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:59:29","slug":"government-denies-pushing-elections-to-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/government-denies-pushing-elections-to-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Government denies pushing elections to 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5749\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5749\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Karuhanga-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5749\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Karuhanga-2.jpg\" alt=\"Western Youth MP Gerald Karuhanga\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Karuhanga-2.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Karuhanga-2-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Karuhanga-2-187x125.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Karuhanga-2-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western Youth MP Gerald Karuhanga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The leadership of independents in parliament has criticized a reported move by members of the ruling NRM party seeking to extend the elections for two years.<br \/>\nThis follows reports that the NRM legislators meeting at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi had asked for Shs300m each to be able to push for a constitutional amendment to extend the next general elections to 2018.<br \/>\nAddressing journalists at parliament the spokesperson of the independents in parliament Gerald Karuhanga said if such reports were true, it would be a great disgrace, vowing to block any such move.<br \/>\nHowever the government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has dismissed the reports as mere rumours.<br \/>\nOpondo has told KFM that the party\u2019s Kyankwanzi agenda has nothing to do with any constitutional amendments.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the NRM caucus meeting in Kyankwanzi continues to receive reports on performance of various ministries.<br \/>\nAccording to the party\u2019s spokesperson Ofwono Opondo legislators were today receiving reports from officials of the ministry of agriculture and the National Agricultural Advisory Services secretariat who explained what has been done in the past few years.<br \/>\nHe adds that an earlier session saw the Secretary General of Ethiopia\u2019s ruling party share with the members on their system of governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of independents in parliament has criticized a reported move by members of the ruling NRM party seeking to extend the elections for two years. This follows reports that the NRM legislators meeting at the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi had asked for Shs300m each to be able to push for a constitutional amendment to extend the next general elections to 2018. Addressing journalists at parliament the spokesperson of the independents in parliament Gerald Karuhanga said if such reports were true, it would be a great disgrace, vowing to block any such move. However the government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has dismissed the reports as mere rumours. Opondo has told KFM that the party\u2019s Kyankwanzi agenda has nothing to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}