{"id":54904,"date":"2022-03-25T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=54904"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:53:48","slug":"lop-asks-owiny-dollo-to-withdraw-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/lop-asks-owiny-dollo-to-withdraw-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"LOP asks Owiny Dollo to withdraw tribal remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The leader of opposition in parliament Matthias Mpuuga has cautioned leaders against promoting tribal sentiments warning it will only cause conflict in a country that has worked hard to be united.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to mourners at the residence of the late speaker Jacob Oulanyah in Muyenga last night, the tough speaking Mpuuga said nobody should misrepresent the people of Buganda, Acholi, or any other group of people in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mpuuga, \u201cUganda is big enough for all of us to fit in, love, and serve with commitment and conviction that we are part of this dear nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of us are lucky we grew up in a cosmopolitan set up here in the central region, nobody should stand here and misrepresent the people of Buganda, the people of Acholi or any other group of people in Uganda, we did not file any application to be Ugandans,\u201d said Mpuuga.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come after Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny Dollo made tribalistic comments at Oulanyah\u2019s Vigil in which he throws jabs at a group of Ugandans who protested against the admission of Oulanyah in a Seattle based hospital and yet didn\u2019t complain when the Buganda king traveled to Germany for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Dollo\u2019s remarks have since caused an uproar among Ugandans who have expressed mixed reactions on social media.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mpuuga calls for unity further urging the chief justice to withdraw his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs leaders, we should be careful in speaking a language that has the potential of framing especially ethnic anatomy in this country. I listened to the Chief Justice and I was saddened. I hope he will reflect on his views about sections of this country, we have a serious duty of keeping this country together,\u201d added Mr. Mpuuga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa The leader of opposition in parliament Matthias Mpuuga has cautioned leaders against promoting tribal sentiments warning it will only cause conflict in a country that has worked hard to be united. Speaking to mourners at the residence of the late speaker Jacob Oulanyah in Muyenga last night, the tough speaking Mpuuga said nobody should misrepresent the people of Buganda, Acholi, or any other group of people in Uganda. According to Mpuuga, \u201cUganda is big enough for all of us to fit in, love, and serve with commitment and conviction that we are part of this dear nation.\u201d \u201cSome of us are lucky we grew up in a cosmopolitan set up here in the central region, nobody should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":54905,"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-54904","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\/54904"}],"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=54904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}