{"id":6080,"date":"2013-05-03T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2013-05-03T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:14:24","slug":"nrm-heads-to-court-over-rebel-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nrm-heads-to-court-over-rebel-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"NRM heads to court over rebel MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6081\" alt=\"Rugunda-NRM-PC\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC-175x125.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC-93x67.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Rugunda-NRM-PC.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NRM Party has resolved to go to court to challenge the decision taken by the Speaker of Parliament on the fate of the 4 \u00a0rebel MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The party will challenge the decision taken by Rebecca Kadaga, declining to eject the MPs from Parliament following their expulsion from the NRM.<\/p>\n<p>The NRM Electoral commission chairman Ruhakana Rugunda said the decision is not only against the constitution, but also the will of the people whom these MPs represent.<\/p>\n<p>Rugunda says Rebecca Kadaga has also set a bad precedent, by \u00a0promising to provide a special sitting for the MPs, saying it \u00a0creates another category of MPs which is legally strange.<\/p>\n<p>Rugunda says that since Kadaga is the NRM vice chairperson for Eastern Uganda and was part of the CEC that made the decision to expel the errant MPs, she should have stayed away from such a ruling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRM Party has resolved to go to court to challenge the decision taken by the Speaker of Parliament on the fate of the 4 \u00a0rebel MPs. The party will challenge the decision taken by Rebecca Kadaga, declining to eject the MPs from Parliament following their expulsion from the NRM. The NRM Electoral commission chairman Ruhakana Rugunda said the decision is not only against the constitution, but also the will of the people whom these MPs represent. Rugunda says Rebecca Kadaga has also set a bad precedent, by \u00a0promising to provide a special sitting for the MPs, saying it \u00a0creates another category of MPs which is legally strange. Rugunda says that since Kadaga is the NRM vice chairperson for Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6081,"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-6080","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\/6080"}],"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=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}