{"id":57896,"date":"2022-08-29T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=57896"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:12:34","slug":"why-gen-tumwines-body-wont-lie-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/why-gen-tumwines-body-wont-lie-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Gen Tumwine\u2019s body won\u2019t lie in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

The body of former Security minister,\u00a0Gen Elly Tumwine, will not lie in state at Parliament<\/a>\u00a0for lawmakers to pay last tribute to him, despite having been an MP for 34 years.<\/p>\n

Up until when he succumbed to lung cancer at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, Gen Tumwine was a four-star UPDF general, who represented the institution in Parliament (including the National Resistance Council).<\/p>\n

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His legislative tenure ended last May with the lapse of the 10th Parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe were advised not to [take the body to Parliament]. In the military, we work by\u00a0orders,\u201d the UPDF spokesperson, Brig Felix Kulayigye, said without naming the person who issued the instructions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Relatives and friends last evening converged for a vigil at his Kampala home in Nakasero ahead of today\u2019s official funeral at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds where President Museveni is expected to attend.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/why-gen-tumwine-s-body-won-t-lie-in-parliament-3929484<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The body of former Security minister,\u00a0Gen Elly Tumwine, will not lie in state at Parliament\u00a0for lawmakers to pay last tribute to him, despite having been an MP for 34 years. Up until when he succumbed to lung cancer at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, Gen Tumwine was a four-star UPDF general, who represented the institution in Parliament (including the National Resistance Council). His legislative tenure ended last May with the lapse of the 10th Parliament. \u201cWe were advised not to [take the body to Parliament]. In the military, we work by\u00a0orders,\u201d the UPDF spokesperson, Brig Felix Kulayigye, said without naming the person who issued the instructions. Relatives and friends last evening converged for a vigil at his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":57897,"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-57896","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\/57896"}],"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=57896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}