{"id":32500,"date":"2017-12-10T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T09:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=32500"},"modified":"2017-12-10T09:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T09:10:47","slug":"presidential-advisor-in-trouble-after-hes-found-in-possession-of-wildlife-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/presidential-advisor-in-trouble-after-hes-found-in-possession-of-wildlife-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential advisor in trouble after hes found in possession of wildlife species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Presidential adviser on political affairs Nuwagaba Yekoyada has been charged with three counts of unlawful possession 192.04 kg of wildlife species valued at 837360 Uganda shillings .<\/p>\n<p>61 year old Nuwagaba has been charged by the Utility court sitting at Buganda road court headed by chief magistrate James Ereemye Mawanda and denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p>He is jointly charged with two others who are still at large including 39 year old Katuna Bright a resident of Kyebando, \u00a0and 30 year old Rwakaseta Fred a resident of Kisasi all found in Kawempe division Kampala district.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution led by Maureen Ninsiima states that on febuary 20th 2017 at Casablanca club in Kololo, \u00a0Kampala district, Nuwagaba and two others still large were found in possession of protected wildlife species worth 109.5 kgs valued at 30.500 us dollars.<\/p>\n<p>State further contends \u00a0that on the 21st of febuary 2017 Nuwagaba was found with 78.5 kg of Hipo teeth valued at 27.500 us dollars at his home in Kisugu zone Makindye division Kampala district.<\/p>\n<p>Nuwagaba was also found with a live tortoise and their scales \u00a0worth 4.04 kgs valued at 1746 \u00a0us dollar&#8217;s at Kawuka village in Wakiso district all without wildlife use right.<\/p>\n<p>The magistrate has now adjourned the matter for one hour to State to reply to defense&#8217;s bail application<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah:\u00a0 Presidential adviser on political affairs Nuwagaba Yekoyada has been charged with three counts of unlawful possession 192.04 kg of wildlife species valued at 837360 Uganda shillings . 61 year old Nuwagaba has been charged by the Utility court sitting at Buganda road court headed by chief magistrate James Ereemye Mawanda and denied the charges. He is jointly charged with two others who are still at large including 39 year old Katuna Bright a resident of Kyebando, \u00a0and 30 year old Rwakaseta Fred a resident of Kisasi all found in Kawempe division Kampala district. Prosecution led by Maureen Ninsiima states that on febuary 20th 2017 at Casablanca club in Kololo, \u00a0Kampala district, Nuwagaba and two others still large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":32501,"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-32500","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\/32500"}],"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=32500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}