{"id":17003,"date":"2015-03-19T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:51:59","slug":"commission-declines-to-comment-on-kavumas-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/commission-declines-to-comment-on-kavumas-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission declines to comment on Kavuma&#8217;s appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5359\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Justice-Kavuma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5359\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Justice-Kavuma.jpg\" alt=\"Deputy Chief Justice Stephen Kavuma\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Justice-Kavuma.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Justice-Kavuma-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Justice-Kavuma-176x125.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Justice-Kavuma-94x67.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Chief Justice Stephen Kavuma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Judicial Service Commission has remained tight lipped on whether or not they recommended Justice Steven Kavuma\u2019s name for the position of Deputy Chief Justice.<br \/>\nThis comes a day after he was vetted by Parliament amidst growing controversy.<br \/>\nAccording to the commission\u2019s secretary Kagole Kivumbi , they cannot comment on this matter now on grounds that Justice Kavuma\u2019s recruitment process is still ongoing.<br \/>\nHe explained that the recruitment process is now before Parliament that he said has not even come out with their position on whether Justice Kavuma was approved or not.<br \/>\nControversy continues to surround Justice Kavuma\u2019s appointment for the second highest job in the judiciary on grounds that his name was not among those nominated by JSC to the President for appointment and yet it\u2019s a constitutional requirement when recruiting judges.<br \/>\nHowever, speaking shortly after the Parliamentary vetting yesterday, Kavuma insisted that he applied and even sat for interviews at the commission, describing the allegations against him as \u201clies\u201d and \u201cloose talk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Judicial Service Commission has remained tight lipped on whether or not they recommended Justice Steven Kavuma\u2019s name for the position of Deputy Chief Justice. This comes a day after he was vetted by Parliament amidst growing controversy. According to the commission\u2019s secretary Kagole Kivumbi , they cannot comment on this matter now on grounds that Justice Kavuma\u2019s recruitment process is still ongoing. He explained that the recruitment process is now before Parliament that he said has not even come out with their position on whether Justice Kavuma was approved or not. Controversy continues to surround Justice Kavuma\u2019s appointment for the second highest job in the judiciary on grounds that his name was not among those nominated by JSC to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5359,"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-17003","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\/17003"}],"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=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}