{"id":43950,"date":"2020-12-28T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=43950"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T08:09:48","slug":"jailed-human-rights-lawyer-nicholas-opiyo-is-expected-in-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/jailed-human-rights-lawyer-nicholas-opiyo-is-expected-in-court-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Human Rights Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo is expected in court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43890\" style=\"width: 1160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43890\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/opiyo-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo. PHOTO\/ FILE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nBy Ruth Anderah\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human rights lawyer and chapter four Uganda executive director, Nicholas Opiyo is this morning expected to appear before the Anti-corruption court to take plea on charges of money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Opiyo was last Thursday remanded to Kitalya government \u00a0prison after the Nakawa Chief Magistrate Douglas Singiza did not allow him to say anything about the charges of money laundering for lack of jurisdiction over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution states \u00a0that on October 8th \u00a0at ABSA Bank Garden City Branch in Kampala District, Opio&#8217;s Organization Chapter Four Uganda where he is the Executive Director acquired\u00a0 340,000 Dollars\u00a0 approximately\u00a0 over 1.2 billion shillings under account number 6004078045 knowing that at the time of receipt, the money in question was proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p>His co-accused include:\u00a0 Simon Peter Esomu , Anthony Odur , Dakasi Herbert and Hamidu Tenywa who allegedly still under police custody.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah\u00a0 Human rights lawyer and chapter four Uganda executive director, Nicholas Opiyo is this morning expected to appear before the Anti-corruption court to take plea on charges of money laundering. Opiyo was last Thursday remanded to Kitalya government \u00a0prison after the Nakawa Chief Magistrate Douglas Singiza did not allow him to say anything about the charges of money laundering for lack of jurisdiction over the matter. Prosecution states \u00a0that on October 8th \u00a0at ABSA Bank Garden City Branch in Kampala District, Opio&#8217;s Organization Chapter Four Uganda where he is the Executive Director acquired\u00a0 340,000 Dollars\u00a0 approximately\u00a0 over 1.2 billion shillings under account number 6004078045 knowing that at the time of receipt, the money in question was proceeds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43890,"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-43950","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\/43950"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}