{"id":55122,"date":"2022-04-06T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=55122"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:07:19","slug":"speaker-tasks-mps-to-deliver-oulanyah-son-as-omoro-county-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/speaker-tasks-mps-to-deliver-oulanyah-son-as-omoro-county-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker tasks MPs to deliver Oulanyah son as Omoro County MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Ms Anita Among, has tasked legislators from northern Uganda to make Mr Andrew Ojok, the son of the fallen Speaker Jacob Oulanyah the new Omoro County MP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>The former Speaker died on March 20 in Seattle, US where he was airlifted in February for medical care. He will be buried this Friday in Omoro. He was 56.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Oulanyah was the Omoro County MP from 2001 to 2005 and then from 2011 until his death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>While addressing mourners at the vigil at Oulanyah\u2019s home in Muyenga, Kampala on Monday, Mr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Anthony Akol, the head of the Acholi Parliamentary Committee, said: \u201cI have been given responsibilities by the Speaker of Parliament who is newly elected to make sure that one of the family members should be the next Member of Parliament. I think I will deliver that. In Luo culture, if someone has given birth to a child, he is not dead so Jacob is not dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/speaker-tasks-mps-to-deliver-oulanyah-son-as-omoro-county-mp-3773000\">https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/speaker-tasks-mps-to-deliver-oulanyah-son-as-omoro-county-mp-3773000<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Ms Anita Among, has tasked legislators from northern Uganda to make Mr Andrew Ojok, the son of the fallen Speaker Jacob Oulanyah the new Omoro County MP. The former Speaker died on March 20 in Seattle, US where he was airlifted in February for medical care. He will be buried this Friday in Omoro. He was 56. Oulanyah was the Omoro County MP from 2001 to 2005 and then from 2011 until his death. While addressing mourners at the vigil at Oulanyah\u2019s home in Muyenga, Kampala on Monday, Mr Anthony Akol, the head of the Acholi Parliamentary Committee, said: \u201cI have been given responsibilities by the Speaker of Parliament who is newly elected to make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":55123,"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-55122","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\/55122"}],"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=55122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}