{"id":31153,"date":"2017-09-08T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=31153"},"modified":"2017-09-08T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:02:52","slug":"newly-appointed-deputy-cj-dollo-uganda-has-no-lesson-to-pick-from-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/newly-appointed-deputy-cj-dollo-uganda-has-no-lesson-to-pick-from-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly appointed Deputy CJ Dollo &#8211; Uganda has no lesson to pick from Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Moses Kyeyune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newly appointed Deputy Chief Justice, Alphonse Owiny-Dollo says Uganda has no lessons to pick from the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling, which nullified the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan Supreme Court faulted the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Kenya for failure to conduct a free and fair election and ordered a fresh election in an unprecedented ruling last month.<\/p>\n<p>The court decision was hailed by different people especially the opposition in Uganda which asked that the judiciary borrows a leaf from Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking to journalists shortly he appeared before parliament\u2019s appointments committee for vetting this morning, Justice Owiny-Dollo said that instead, it is Kenya that picked lessons from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Owiny-Dollo has also vowed to stand by the constitution once approved by parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He has also rejected allegations that he is a cadre in the ruling National Resistance Movement party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Kyeyune The newly appointed Deputy Chief Justice, Alphonse Owiny-Dollo says Uganda has no lessons to pick from the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling, which nullified the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta. The Kenyan Supreme Court faulted the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Kenya for failure to conduct a free and fair election and ordered a fresh election in an unprecedented ruling last month. The court decision was hailed by different people especially the opposition in Uganda which asked that the judiciary borrows a leaf from Kenya. However, speaking to journalists shortly he appeared before parliament\u2019s appointments committee for vetting this morning, Justice Owiny-Dollo said that instead, it is Kenya that picked lessons from Uganda. Justice Owiny-Dollo has also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}