{"id":49426,"date":"2021-07-28T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=49426"},"modified":"2021-07-28T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:32:33","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-easing-lockdown-after-city-boda-boda-rider-knocked-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/pressure-mounts-on-easing-lockdown-after-city-boda-boda-rider-knocked-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts on easing lockdown after city boda-boda rider knocked dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By David Vosh Ajuna<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n

Pressure on government to ease restrictions escalated Wednesday with sections of Ugandans appealing to President Museveni to relax a 42-day lockdown he announced on June 18- after a city \u2018boda-boda\u2019 rider was allegedly killed by police officers enforcing Covid-19 measures.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018A police vehicle was chasing after him for allegedly flouting Covid-19 restrictions and knocked him. He died on spot. We understand his body was taken to Mulago National referral hospital,\u2019\u2019 said a \u2018boda\u2019 rider, flanked by his enraged colleagues, chanting similar claims in footage released Wednesday by\u00a0NTV Uganda.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire has since urged \u2018\u2018patience and calm\u2019\u2019 as the Police Force probes circumstances under which Geoffrey Tumuheirwe, 27, perished.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018It is alleged that while Ismah Lubega, 26, a driver and resident of Maganjo in Wakiso District, was driving motor vehicle registration number UBK 565B allegedly collided with a motorcycle registration number UFA 380B ridden by Tumuheirwe who died on spot,\u2019\u2019 ASP \u00a0Owoyisigire told\u00a0Daily Monitor<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/pressure-mounts-on-easing-lockdown-after-city-boda-boda-rider-knocked-dead-3489496<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David Vosh Ajuna Pressure on government to ease restrictions escalated Wednesday with sections of Ugandans appealing to President Museveni to relax a 42-day lockdown he announced on June 18- after a city \u2018boda-boda\u2019 rider was allegedly killed by police officers enforcing Covid-19 measures. \u2018\u2018A police vehicle was chasing after him for allegedly flouting Covid-19 restrictions and knocked him. He died on spot. We understand his body was taken to Mulago National referral hospital,\u2019\u2019 said a \u2018boda\u2019 rider, flanked by his enraged colleagues, chanting similar claims in footage released Wednesday by\u00a0NTV Uganda. Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire has since urged \u2018\u2018patience and calm\u2019\u2019 as the Police Force probes circumstances under which Geoffrey Tumuheirwe, 27, perished. \u2018\u2018It is alleged that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49427,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100,310],"class_list":["post-49426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boda-boda","tag-lockdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49426"}],"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=49426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}