{"id":34952,"date":"2018-05-18T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=34952"},"modified":"2018-05-18T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:54:41","slug":"former-tabliq-muslim-leader-sheikh-yunus-kamoga-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/former-tabliq-muslim-leader-sheikh-yunus-kamoga-denied-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tabliq Muslim leader Sheikh Yunus Kamoga denied bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The jailed former Tabliq Muslim leader Sheikh Yunus Kamoga has also been denied bail by the court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Kamoga\u00a0 is serving a life jail sentence\u00a0 for Terrorisim which was handed to him by the International Crimes Division of the High court last year .<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling this morning, justice Christopher Madrama has maintained his stand he took last week while dismissing the bail application of another Muslim cleric;\u00a0 Sheikh Siraje Kawooya that the 2 Sheikhs no longer enjoy the presumption of innocence having been convicted of a capital offence.<\/p>\n<p>The judge further\u00a0 explained that since\u00a0 sheikh Kamoga was also\u00a0 committed to serve the second most severe punishment to death, chances are high that he\u00a0 may abscond once grsnted bail.<\/p>\n<p>Court\u00a0 has also watered down sheikh Kamoga&#8217;s other grounds he advanced for bail such as his old age of 66, his need of special palliative care for hypertension , ulcers and obesity which he had claimed could expose him to cardiac complications if left in prison.<\/p>\n<p>However Justice Madrama has ruled that Kamoga led no proof to court&#8217;s satisfaction\u00a0 that the facility at Luzira prison can not handle his medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The judge \u00a0instead ordered that the sheikhs appeal be expeditiously fixed for hearing other than having them released on bail.<\/p>\n<p>Kamoga and 7 other sheikhs were last year found guilty of committing Terroism acts by the International Crimes Division court \u00a0and sentenced to serve 30 years and\u00a0to spend the remaining parts of their lives in prison respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah. The jailed former Tabliq Muslim leader Sheikh Yunus Kamoga has also been denied bail by the court of Appeal. Sheikh Kamoga\u00a0 is serving a life jail sentence\u00a0 for Terrorisim which was handed to him by the International Crimes Division of the High court last year . In his ruling this morning, justice Christopher Madrama has maintained his stand he took last week while dismissing the bail application of another Muslim cleric;\u00a0 Sheikh Siraje Kawooya that the 2 Sheikhs no longer enjoy the presumption of innocence having been convicted of a capital offence. The judge further\u00a0 explained that since\u00a0 sheikh Kamoga was also\u00a0 committed to serve the second most severe punishment to death, chances are high that he\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34953,"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-34952","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\/34952"}],"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=34952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}