{"id":42900,"date":"2019-09-03T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=42900"},"modified":"2019-09-03T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T13:18:50","slug":"budaka-cao-hospitalised-after-motor-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/budaka-cao-hospitalised-after-motor-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Budaka CAO hospitalised after motor accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42901\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42901 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wreckage-of-CAOs-car-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wreckage-of-CAOs-car-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wreckage-of-CAOs-car-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wreckage-of-CAOs-car-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Wreckage-of-CAOs-car.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wreckage of the car after it was involved in an accident on Mbale &#8211; Tirinyi highway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Mudangha Kolyangha <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The chief administrative officer (CAO), Budaka District, Mr Abdu Batambuze, has been admitted at Mbale referral hospital after being involved in an accident along Mbale- Tirinyi highway.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on Monday, few metres away from Budaka Town council after the CAO\u2019s vehicle, registration number LG-00080-011 veered off the road and knocked a stationary taxi, registration number UAK931N.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Batambuze, who sustained minor injuries, was rushed to the hospital for treatment while the vehicles involved in the accidents were towed to Budaka police station, according to the eye witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The District Police Commander (DPC), Mr Wilson Salaam, confirmed the incident and blamed it on the reckless riding by the boda boda riders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the process of Mr Batambuze trying to save the boda boda cyclists, who had made an impromptu turn, his vehicle swerved off and knocked a parked stationary taxi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Budaka LC5 chairman, Mr. Sam Mulomi said the CAO\u2019s condition is stabilising since he didn\u2019t sustain life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has since been discharged from hospital after it was discovered that he was out of danger,\u201d Mr Mulomi, said on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mudangha Kolyangha The chief administrative officer (CAO), Budaka District, Mr Abdu Batambuze, has been admitted at Mbale referral hospital after being involved in an accident along Mbale- Tirinyi highway. The accident happened on Monday, few metres away from Budaka Town council after the CAO\u2019s vehicle, registration number LG-00080-011 veered off the road and knocked a stationary taxi, registration number UAK931N. Mr Batambuze, who sustained minor injuries, was rushed to the hospital for treatment while the vehicles involved in the accidents were towed to Budaka police station, according to the eye witnesses. The District Police Commander (DPC), Mr Wilson Salaam, confirmed the incident and blamed it on the reckless riding by the boda boda riders. \u201cIn the process of Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":42901,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42900"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}