{"id":36822,"date":"2018-08-20T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T11:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=36822"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:27:54","slug":"gunshots-rock-downtown-kampala-as-police-battle-rioters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/gunshots-rock-downtown-kampala-as-police-battle-rioters\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunshots rock downtown Kampala as police battle rioters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36823 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/latest06pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/latest06pix.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/latest06pix-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Police and the army have fired teargas and bullets to stop rioters who have lit fire in the middle of roads in Kisekka Market, Namirembe Road and Kikuubo.<\/p>\n<p>The police were chasing crowds who were shouting &#8220;People Power, Our power\u201d demanding Bobi Wine\u2019s release. The protesters accuse the government of arresting and torturing MPs Bobi Wine, Francis Zaake and others who were arrested in Arua last Monday, after chaos that occurred when MP-Elect Kassiano Wadri\u2019s supporters met with those of NRM candidate Nusura Tiperu.<\/p>\n<p>Police have deployed heavily in downtown Kampala and police cars, mambas can be seen on the streets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36824 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/latest06pixx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/latest06pixx.jpg 435w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/latest06pixx-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related Stories&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/news\/gunshots-rock-downtown-kampala-as-police-battle-rioters.html\">Gunshots rock downtown Kampala as police battle rioters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/news\/fdc-demand-for-the-release-of-bobi-wine-or-join-the-ongoing-demonstrations.html\">FDC demand for the release of Bobi Wine or join the ongoing demonstrations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and the army have fired teargas and bullets to stop rioters who have lit fire in the middle of roads in Kisekka Market, Namirembe Road and Kikuubo. The police were chasing crowds who were shouting &#8220;People Power, Our power\u201d demanding Bobi Wine\u2019s release. The protesters accuse the government of arresting and torturing MPs Bobi Wine, Francis Zaake and others who were arrested in Arua last Monday, after chaos that occurred when MP-Elect Kassiano Wadri\u2019s supporters met with those of NRM candidate Nusura Tiperu. Police have deployed heavily in downtown Kampala and police cars, mambas can be seen on the streets. Related Stories&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Gunshots rock downtown Kampala as police battle rioters &nbsp; FDC demand for the release of Bobi Wine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36823,"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":[140,141,142],"class_list":["post-36822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news","tag-bobi-wine","tag-police","tag-teargas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36822"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}