{"id":57183,"date":"2022-07-26T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=57183"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:28:58","slug":"maos-move-doesnt-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/maos-move-doesnt-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye\/","title":{"rendered":"Mao\u2019s move doesn&#8217;t mean much for Ugandans &#8211; Besigye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-authors\">\n<div class=\"article-authors_inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"article-authors_texts\">\n<p class=\"article-authors_authors clearfix\"><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/simon-peter-emwamu-1935894\">Simon Peter Emwamu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<div class=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) politician Kizza Besigye has downplayed the \u00a0Democratic Party (DP) president general Norbert Mao\u2019s decision to join President Museveni\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Besigye, who is in Soroti to drum up support for FDC candidate Moses Attan Okia \u00a0for the Soroti City East Division MP seat, \u00a0told<em><strong>\u00a0Monitor<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0that Mr Mao\u2019s decision to serve as a minister in the NRM party, \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean much for Ugandans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/news\/museveni-appoints-mao-justice-minister.html\">Museveni appoints Mao justice minister<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt (his decision) simply means that the person who has been fighting with us has reached his capacity and can\u2019t go any further and that doesn\u2019t mean we will have to end the struggle,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAdding: \u201cOthers may fall off at 10 miles, but we must continue. That is how we defeated the British, that is how other countries that have freedom attained it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/mao-s-move-doesn-t-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye-3892232\">https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/mao-s-move-doesn-t-mean-much-for-ugandans-besigye-3892232<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Simon Peter Emwamu Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) politician Kizza Besigye has downplayed the \u00a0Democratic Party (DP) president general Norbert Mao\u2019s decision to join President Museveni\u2019s government. Dr Besigye, who is in Soroti to drum up support for FDC candidate Moses Attan Okia \u00a0for the Soroti City East Division MP seat, \u00a0told\u00a0Monitor\u00a0that Mr Mao\u2019s decision to serve as a minister in the NRM party, \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean much for Ugandans\u201d. Read:\u00a0Museveni appoints Mao justice minister \u201cIt (his decision) simply means that the person who has been fighting with us has reached his capacity and can\u2019t go any further and that doesn\u2019t mean we will have to end the struggle,\u201d he said. Adding: \u201cOthers may fall off at 10 miles, but we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":57184,"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":[85,301,66,482,483,484,251],"class_list":["post-57183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-democractic-party","tag-fdc","tag-kizza-besigye","tag-mao","tag-nobert-mao","tag-soroti-byelection","tag-yoweri-kaguta-museveni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57183"}],"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=57183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}