{"id":32461,"date":"2017-12-05T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32461"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:39:13","slug":"redpepper-directors-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/redpepper-directors-denied-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Redpepper directors denied bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nA prosecutor from the Uganda Communications commission (UCC) Abdul-Salam Waiswa has asked Buganda Road Court chief magistrate James Ereemye Mawanda\u00a0 not to release on bail the\u00a0 8\u00a0 redpepper publication directors and senior Editors for fearing of repeatitive offending and endangering national security.<\/p>\n<p>Waiswa informed court that if the suspects are left free to gain access to their computers, e-mails and mobile phones, there is a likelihood of re-connecting with their networks to frustrate the on-going investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Waiswa added that court should also take into account\u00a0 the gravity and seriousness of the offense of publishing information prejudicial to national security allegedly committed by the suspects which shows that they are a danger to Uganda , Rwanda and the entire great lakes region security once released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>The eight\u00a0 were sent on remand at Luzira prison last week on Monday over charges of allegdly publishing information prejudical to security , libel and offensive communication to the person of president M7 and his brother Gen. Salim Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 directors\u00a0\u00a0 include ;\u00a0\u00a0 Richard Tusiime ; the Managing Director, Johnson Musinguzi the Finance Director,\u00a0 Patrick Mugumya ; The Director Operations and\u00a0 Arinatiwe Rugyendo;\u00a0\u00a0 a director who also doubles as a secretary and\u00a0 chief marketing officer.<\/p>\n<p>Others are ;\u00a0 Richard Kintu; the Deputy News Editor , Ben Byarabaha a senior Editor\u00a0 Francis Tumusiime;\u00a0 the special project Editor and James Mujuni a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0 are said to have\u00a0 willfully and repeatedly\u00a0 used\u00a0 their computers for no legitimate purposes to disturb the peace and privacy\u00a0 of his excellency YKM7 , Gen Saleh and Lt Gen Tumukunde by portraying them as people\u00a0 who\u00a0 contrived a plot to over throw\u00a0 the president of the Republic\u00a0 of Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah:\u00a0 A prosecutor from the Uganda Communications commission (UCC) Abdul-Salam Waiswa has asked Buganda Road Court chief magistrate James Ereemye Mawanda\u00a0 not to release on bail the\u00a0 8\u00a0 redpepper publication directors and senior Editors for fearing of repeatitive offending and endangering national security. Waiswa informed court that if the suspects are left free to gain access to their computers, e-mails and mobile phones, there is a likelihood of re-connecting with their networks to frustrate the on-going investigations. Waiswa added that court should also take into account\u00a0 the gravity and seriousness of the offense of publishing information prejudicial to national security allegedly committed by the suspects which shows that they are a danger to Uganda , Rwanda and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32464,"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-32461","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\/32461"}],"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=32461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}