{"id":16820,"date":"2015-03-05T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2015-03-06T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T03:20:12","slug":"uganda-finally-has-a-chief-justice-bart-katureebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-finally-has-a-chief-justice-bart-katureebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda finally has a Chief Justice- Bart Katureebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16815\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16815\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ.jpg\" alt=\"New Chief Justice Bart Katureebe\" width=\"599\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ-212x140.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ-235x155.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ-318x210.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/New-CJ-360x238.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Chief Justice Bart Katureebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Bart Magunda Katureebe Uganda\u2019s new Chief Justice after two years without one.<br \/>\nThe president has also appointed Steven Kavuma as deputy chief justice. Government spokesman, Ofwono Opondo confirmed the development.<br \/>\nThe appointment of Katureebe has come as great news to the judiciary that has always felt the pinch of lacking a leader.<br \/>\nWe spoke to the Judiciary spokesman Erias Kisawuzi who says his appointment brings an end to the confusion and suspense that has surrounded the position since the retirement of Justice Justice Benjamin Odoki.<br \/>\nJustice Katureebe, 64 has been Justice of the Supreme Court and previously worked as the Attorney General.<br \/>\nThe appointment of Bart Magunda Katureebe has also drawn reactions from Members of parliament, most of whom have applauded president Museveni for finally filling up the top most position in the judiciary.<br \/>\nMPs including Kafeero Sekitoleko (Nakifuma), Monica Amoding (National Youth MP), Stephen Mukitale (Buliisa) and Vincent Bagiire (Bunya West-Mayuge) said this would go a long way in service delivery in the judiciary expecting a lot from him.<br \/>\nFrom the legal fraternity, the former secretary general of the Uganda Law society Nicolas Opio says the appointment of Justice Katureebe is a good move for the justice system.<br \/>\nOpio however notes that the appointment shows how the president sometimes contradicts himself since Katureebe\u2019s name was presented to him before and he rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Ruth Anderah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Bart Magunda Katureebe Uganda\u2019s new Chief Justice after two years without one. The president has also appointed Steven Kavuma as deputy chief justice. Government spokesman, Ofwono Opondo confirmed the development. The appointment of Katureebe has come as great news to the judiciary that has always felt the pinch of lacking a leader. We spoke to the Judiciary spokesman Erias Kisawuzi who says his appointment brings an end to the confusion and suspense that has surrounded the position since the retirement of Justice Justice Benjamin Odoki. Justice Katureebe, 64 has been Justice of the Supreme Court and previously worked as the Attorney General. The appointment of Bart Magunda Katureebe has also drawn reactions from Members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16815,"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-16820","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\/16820"}],"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=16820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}