{"id":31811,"date":"2017-10-11T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=31811"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:45:48","slug":"hearing-of-criminal-cases-in-courts-stalls-as-state-prosecutors-strike-enters-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/hearing-of-criminal-cases-in-courts-stalls-as-state-prosecutors-strike-enters-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing of criminal cases in courts stalls as state prosecutors\u2019 strike enters day two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hearing of criminal cases in courts around\u00a0Kampala\u00a0has stalled again as the state prosecutors\u2019 strike enters day two.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors through the Uganda Association of Prosecutors on July 17th 2017 issued a 90-day ultimatum to government to increase their salaries and secure promotions for those at lower ranks but have been serving for quite a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p>According to them the 90 days elapsed on October 9th 2017 without any communication from government on promises it had made earlier through Justice Minister Kahinda Otafire.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors earn between Shs 500,000 and more than shs 1,000,000\u00a0depending on one&#8217;s\u00a0 rank.<\/p>\n<p>This time round state prosecutors strike has entered day two and works in courts especially magistrates courts are palaryzed.<\/p>\n<p>However cases\u00a0\u00a0 prosecuted by IGG, \u00a0Attorney General chambers and those\u00a0 privately prosecuted by\u00a0 lawyers\u00a0 are\u00a0 on-going.<br \/>\nHowever there is no clear communication yet on how long this industrial action will last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah: Hearing of criminal cases in courts around\u00a0Kampala\u00a0has stalled again as the state prosecutors\u2019 strike enters day two. Prosecutors through the Uganda Association of Prosecutors on July 17th 2017 issued a 90-day ultimatum to government to increase their salaries and secure promotions for those at lower ranks but have been serving for quite a long period of time. According to them the 90 days elapsed on October 9th 2017 without any communication from government on promises it had made earlier through Justice Minister Kahinda Otafire. Prosecutors earn between Shs 500,000 and more than shs 1,000,000\u00a0depending on one&#8217;s\u00a0 rank. This time round state prosecutors strike has entered day two and works in courts especially magistrates courts are palaryzed. However [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30878,"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-31811","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\/31811"}],"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=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}