{"id":5143,"date":"2013-03-02T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T17:33:04","slug":"kategaya-passes-on-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kategaya-passes-on-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Kategaya passes on. RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kategaya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5144\" alt=\"kategaya\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kategaya.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kategaya.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kategaya-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/kategaya-134x67.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Eriya Kategaya is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo has confirmed that Kategaya passed on in a hospital in Nairobi at 5.00pm today.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted at the Hospital about a month ago.<br \/>\nHe was reportedly suffering from a condition known as Thrombosis (a blockage preventing the flow of blood in the body caused by a clot or a lump of blood).<br \/>\nKategaya, 67, (born July 4, 1945) was reported to have been having treatment in and out of the country for a long period.<br \/>\nMr Kategaya has shared a long relationship with President Yoweri Museveni since their primary school days at Kyamate Primary School in Ntungamo in the 1940s.<br \/>\nIn 2003, Kategaya disagreed with his childhood friend over moves to amend the Constitution to remove term limits.<br \/>\nAs a result, he was dropped from cabinet.<br \/>\nHe joined some former NRM colleagues to create the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) .<br \/>\nHowever, his relationship with the opposition did not last long as he soon after re-joined Museveni in government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Eriya Kategaya is dead. Ethics Minister Simon Lokodo has confirmed that Kategaya passed on in a hospital in Nairobi at 5.00pm today. He was admitted at the Hospital about a month ago. He was reportedly suffering from a condition known as Thrombosis (a blockage preventing the flow of blood in the body caused by a clot or a lump of blood). Kategaya, 67, (born July 4, 1945) was reported to have been having treatment in and out of the country for a long period. Mr Kategaya has shared a long relationship with President Yoweri Museveni since their primary school days at Kyamate Primary School in Ntungamo in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5143","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\/5143"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}