{"id":32002,"date":"2017-10-27T12:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32002"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:11:25","slug":"seven-police-officers-charged-with-kidnap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/seven-police-officers-charged-with-kidnap\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven police officers charged with kidnap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seven police officers have been charged before the General Court Martial at Makindye with the Kidnap of a Rwandese national;\u00a0 Joel Mutabazi.<\/p>\n<p>The seven police officers\u00a0 include; SPC Joel Aguma,\u00a0 SSP Nixon Agasirwe Karuhanga, D\/ASP James Magada, D\/AIP Benon Atwebembeirwe, D\/Sgt Abel Tumukunde , SPC Faisal Katende and D\/CPL Amon Kwarisima.<\/p>\n<p>These are jointly charged with 2 Rwandese nationals; Rene\u00a0Rutangugira and Bahati Mugenga Pacifique.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution\u00a0 led by Maj. Rapheal Mugisha states that on the 25th\/October 2013 at Kamengo in Mpigi district, while the accused where in unlawful possession of firearms and grenades which are a preserve of only the UPDF, they\u00a0 conveyed Mutabazi to Rwanda without his consent.<\/p>\n<p>The accused are\u00a0appearing\u00a0before a 7 member court chaired by Lt.Gen Andrew Gutti but their lawyer Caleb Alaka is objecting to the charges and the jurisdiction of the General Court Martial.<\/p>\n<p>Alaka is contending that his clients cannot take plea on a defective charge sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Gutti has now remanded the 3 senior police officers Aguma, Agasirwe and Magada to Makindye Millitary cells \u00a0while as the rest of the 6 accused have been remanded to Luzira prison<\/p>\n<p>All the accused will re-appear before court on 20th Novemeber 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah: Seven police officers have been charged before the General Court Martial at Makindye with the Kidnap of a Rwandese national;\u00a0 Joel Mutabazi. The seven police officers\u00a0 include; SPC Joel Aguma,\u00a0 SSP Nixon Agasirwe Karuhanga, D\/ASP James Magada, D\/AIP Benon Atwebembeirwe, D\/Sgt Abel Tumukunde , SPC Faisal Katende and D\/CPL Amon Kwarisima. These are jointly charged with 2 Rwandese nationals; Rene\u00a0Rutangugira and Bahati Mugenga Pacifique. Prosecution\u00a0 led by Maj. Rapheal Mugisha states that on the 25th\/October 2013 at Kamengo in Mpigi district, while the accused where in unlawful possession of firearms and grenades which are a preserve of only the UPDF, they\u00a0 conveyed Mutabazi to Rwanda without his consent. The accused are\u00a0appearing\u00a0before a 7 member court chaired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32006,"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-32002","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\/32002"}],"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=32002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}