{"id":35551,"date":"2018-06-12T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=35551"},"modified":"2018-06-12T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T14:10:05","slug":"family-of-arrested-movit-boss-demand-he-is-immediately-produced-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/family-of-arrested-movit-boss-demand-he-is-immediately-produced-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of arrested Movit boss demand he is immediately produced in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The family of the arrested renowned Movit products boss Simpson Birungi has dragged Attorney General of Uganda to High Court seeking orders compelling him to immediately produce their relative in court.<\/p>\n<p>According to the family, Birungi was arrested by\u00a0armed forces\u00a0on June 7th this year\u00a0while answering a bond at Kibuli Police on allegations of murdering his former employee.<\/p>\n<p>The family represented by Birungi&#8217;s wife Sheila Kyokusiima has now sued the director general of\u00a0 Internal Security Organization (ISO), Inspector General of Police (IGP), Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and attorney general (AG) whom she claims are holding her husband illegally since the law requires them\u00a0 to produce him in court within\u00a0 48hours after arrest .<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0police, Birungi was arrested on Monday last week by ISO operatives who later handed him over to police and was consequently detained at Kireka Special Investigations Directorate (SID)\u00a0over murder\u00a0allegations of his former manager\u00a0Stephen Asaba in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Asaba was murdered and his body dumped in Nakawuka in Kajjansi town council, Wakiso district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah. The family of the arrested renowned Movit products boss Simpson Birungi has dragged Attorney General of Uganda to High Court seeking orders compelling him to immediately produce their relative in court. According to the family, Birungi was arrested by\u00a0armed forces\u00a0on June 7th this year\u00a0while answering a bond at Kibuli Police on allegations of murdering his former employee. The family represented by Birungi&#8217;s wife Sheila Kyokusiima has now sued the director general of\u00a0 Internal Security Organization (ISO), Inspector General of Police (IGP), Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and attorney general (AG) whom she claims are holding her husband illegally since the law requires them\u00a0 to produce him in court within\u00a0 48hours after arrest . According to\u00a0police, Birungi was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":35553,"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-35551","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\/35551"}],"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=35551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}