{"id":22900,"date":"2016-07-02T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2016-07-02T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T09:37:56","slug":"kantinti-vows-to-fight-for-his-parliamentary-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kantinti-vows-to-fight-for-his-parliamentary-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kantinti Vows To Fight For His Parliamentary Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Forum for Democratic Change&#8217;s Apollo Kantinti is dissatisfied with the High Court decision that kicked him out of parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Yesterday, High Court Judge Kaweesa Isabirye nullified Kantinti&#8217;s election as Member of Parliament representing\u00a0Kyadondo East Constituency\u00a0over non-compliance with electoral laws by the Electoral Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The Judge found guilty the Wakiso District Returning Officer Sarah Bukirwa of disenfranchising voters\u00a0and failure\u00a0to ensure safe custody of election materials, which substantially affected the outcome of the elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">However, Kantinti says the electoral offenses for which he is paying were committed by Electoral Commission and the District Returning Officer Sarah Bukirwa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">He has vowed to appeal against the court ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Story By Ruth Anderah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forum for Democratic Change&#8217;s Apollo Kantinti is dissatisfied with the High Court decision that kicked him out of parliament. Yesterday, High Court Judge Kaweesa Isabirye nullified Kantinti&#8217;s election as Member of Parliament representing\u00a0Kyadondo East Constituency\u00a0over non-compliance with electoral laws by the Electoral Commission. The Judge found guilty the Wakiso District Returning Officer Sarah Bukirwa of disenfranchising voters\u00a0and failure\u00a0to ensure safe custody of election materials, which substantially affected the outcome of the elections. However, Kantinti says the electoral offenses for which he is paying were committed by Electoral Commission and the District Returning Officer Sarah Bukirwa. He has vowed to appeal against the court ruling. Story By Ruth Anderah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22893,"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-22900","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\/22900"}],"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=22900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}