{"id":51290,"date":"2021-10-07T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=51290"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:54:52","slug":"suspected-terrorist-targeted-local-politician-says-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/suspected-terrorist-targeted-local-politician-says-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected terrorist targeted local politician, says Police"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Andrew Bagala<\/strong><\/p>\n
A suspected terrorist, who was shot dead by security operatives on Monday, was part of a cell that intended to assassinate a prominent politician, police have revealed.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

Hamid Nsubuga, alias Young Midu, 25, a resident of Busabala in Makindye Division, Kampala,\u00a0was shot dead by a joint team of security operatives<\/a>\u00a0at Gayaza Road.
\nThe team had trailed him for more than four hours before opening fire on him.<\/p>\n

A pistol and 25 bullets were recovered from the deceased.
\nPolice spokesman Fred Enanga yesterday said: \u201cThe target [politician] has been informed about the incident, but has asked not to be named because it would affect the family members.\u201d<\/p>\n

Security agents also carried out a search of Nsubuga\u2019s home and found a sales agreement for the motorcycle he was riding.
\nAccording to the agreement, which Daily Monitor has seen, the motorcycle \u2014 a Bajaj Boxer \u2014 was bought at Shs5m at a shop in Ndeeba, Rubaga Division on the same day by one Filipo Byamugisha, a resident of Kiserenge Central in Mubende District.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/suspected-terrorist-targeted-local-politician-says-police-3575480<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Bagala A suspected terrorist, who was shot dead by security operatives on Monday, was part of a cell that intended to assassinate a prominent politician, police have revealed. Hamid Nsubuga, alias Young Midu, 25, a resident of Busabala in Makindye Division, Kampala,\u00a0was shot dead by a joint team of security operatives\u00a0at Gayaza Road. The team had trailed him for more than four hours before opening fire on him. A pistol and 25 bullets were recovered from the deceased. Police spokesman Fred Enanga yesterday said: \u201cThe target [politician] has been informed about the incident, but has asked not to be named because it would affect the family members.\u201d Security agents also carried out a search of Nsubuga\u2019s home and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":51291,"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":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51290","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\/51290"}],"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=51290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}