{"id":16471,"date":"2015-02-11T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16471"},"modified":"2015-02-11T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:28:43","slug":"more-ugandans-likely-to-shun-elections-oguttu-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/more-ugandans-likely-to-shun-elections-oguttu-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"More Ugandans likely to shun elections- Oguttu warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13326\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Wafula-oguttu1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13326\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Wafula-oguttu1.jpg\" alt=\"Leader of Opposition Wafula Oguttu\" width=\"315\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Wafula-oguttu1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Wafula-oguttu1-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leader of Opposition Wafula Oguttu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More Ugandans are likely to shun the 2016 general election if the electoral reforms are not implemented.<br \/>\nThis is according to the leader of opposition in Parliament Wafula Oguttu.<br \/>\nOpening a two-day retreat for opposition MPs, Wafula said that many Ugandans are losing hope in elections and this has a negative impact on democracy.<br \/>\nWafula says that in 2011, 42% of Ugandans stayed away from taking part in elections after the opposition split and failed to front a joint presidential candidate.<br \/>\nHe says although the NRM is not showing commitment to having the reforms passed and implemented the opposition should not give up.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Herbert Zziwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Ugandans are likely to shun the 2016 general election if the electoral reforms are not implemented. This is according to the leader of opposition in Parliament Wafula Oguttu. Opening a two-day retreat for opposition MPs, Wafula said that many Ugandans are losing hope in elections and this has a negative impact on democracy. Wafula says that in 2011, 42% of Ugandans stayed away from taking part in elections after the opposition split and failed to front a joint presidential candidate. He says although the NRM is not showing commitment to having the reforms passed and implemented the opposition should not give up. Story by Herbert Zziwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13326,"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-16471","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\/16471"}],"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=16471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}