{"id":32145,"date":"2017-11-09T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32145"},"modified":"2017-11-09T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T07:07:35","slug":"besigye-escapes-from-custody-in-lira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/besigye-escapes-from-custody-in-lira\/","title":{"rendered":"Besigye escapes from custody in Lira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Tobbias Jolly Owiny:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Drama ensued at Lira Central police station last evening when former FDC Dr. Kiiza Besigye escaped from police custody.<\/p>\n<p>After dispersing his supporters who gathered at Lira Mayor&#8217;s Gardens and battling rowdy supporters on the streets the previous day, police towed Besigye&#8217;s car to police in what they called preventive arrests.<\/p>\n<p>While inside the police station, Besigye took advantage of the disorganized police officers and sneaked out through the station&#8217;s barbed wire fencing.<\/p>\n<p>A police Officer who was on duty at the time confirmed that Besigye escaped through the fencing and got into a standby car that parked outside the station, abandoning his car and other FDC party officials at the police at the time of his escape.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted police to begin searching for Besigye even inside empty cells.<\/p>\n<p>However, when contacted, David Ongom the North Kyoga police spokesperson denied claims that Besigye escaped from police custody saying he was simply released after calm was restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tobbias Jolly Owiny: Drama ensued at Lira Central police station last evening when former FDC Dr. Kiiza Besigye escaped from police custody. After dispersing his supporters who gathered at Lira Mayor&#8217;s Gardens and battling rowdy supporters on the streets the previous day, police towed Besigye&#8217;s car to police in what they called preventive arrests. While inside the police station, Besigye took advantage of the disorganized police officers and sneaked out through the station&#8217;s barbed wire fencing. A police Officer who was on duty at the time confirmed that Besigye escaped through the fencing and got into a standby car that parked outside the station, abandoning his car and other FDC party officials at the police at the time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32146,"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-32145","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\/32145"}],"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=32145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}