{"id":33717,"date":"2018-03-22T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33717"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:05:54","slug":"ucc-defends-ban-on-sale-of-sim-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ucc-defends-ban-on-sale-of-sim-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"UCC defends ban on sale of sim-cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Benjamin Jumbe.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uganda communications commission has defended its directive on halting sale of sim-cards and airtime.<\/p>\n<p>The commission recently instructed all telecommunication companies to stop the practice of selling their sim-cards and airtime on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Now speaking at a communications consumer parliament in Fortportal, the UCC corporate affairs director Fred Ottunu said while it may be inconveniencing it was necessary as a measure to plug existing gaps exploited by criminals.<\/p>\n<p>He further appeals to members of the public to jealously protect their national ID details to avoid being used by suspected criminals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Jumbe. Uganda communications commission has defended its directive on halting sale of sim-cards and airtime. The commission recently instructed all telecommunication companies to stop the practice of selling their sim-cards and airtime on the streets. Now speaking at a communications consumer parliament in Fortportal, the UCC corporate affairs director Fred Ottunu said while it may be inconveniencing it was necessary as a measure to plug existing gaps exploited by criminals. He further appeals to members of the public to jealously protect their national ID details to avoid being used by suspected criminals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":33535,"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-33717","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\/33717"}],"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=33717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}