{"id":62915,"date":"2023-02-15T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=62915"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:01:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:01:48","slug":"nup-speaks-out-on-jailed-mps-defends-mpuuga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nup-speaks-out-on-jailed-mps-defends-mpuuga\/","title":{"rendered":"NUP speaks out on jailed MPs, defends Mpuuga"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Peter Sserugo<\/a>\u00a0| Monitor<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Unity Platform yesterday spoke about the jailed legislators\u2019 long walk to freedom, and shed light on behind-the-scenes talks that could have led to their release on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The NUP Spokesperson, Mr Joel Ssenyoni, told Daily Monitor last evening that the party lawyers and undisclosed MPs played key roles and that \u201cfor over the past one-and-a-half years have been pursuing for [MPs] freedom through all the legal channels especially in the courts of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThis was not going to be very easy, remember when we were pursuing for the freedom of Nubian Lee and other colleagues, it also took months but eventually they got freed,\u201d Mr Ssenyonyi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He added: \u201cThis is the same story with this one, including exerting pressure in parliament and elsewhere and yesterday [Monday] they were granted freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Multiple sources, among them individuals involved and or briefed on the behind-the-scene talks, told Daily Monitor\u00a0 on Monday, that Parliament Speaker Anita Among and Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa as well as the Leader of Opposition, Mr Mathias Mpuuga, played key roles. Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Peter Sserugo\u00a0| Monitor The National Unity Platform yesterday spoke about the jailed legislators\u2019 long walk to freedom, and shed light on behind-the-scenes talks that could have led to their release on Monday. The NUP Spokesperson, Mr Joel Ssenyoni, told Daily Monitor last evening that the party lawyers and undisclosed MPs played key roles and that \u201cfor over the past one-and-a-half years have been pursuing for [MPs] freedom through all the legal channels especially in the courts of law.\u201d \u00a0\u201cThis was not going to be very easy, remember when we were pursuing for the freedom of Nubian Lee and other colleagues, it also took months but eventually they got freed,\u201d Mr Ssenyonyi said. He added: \u201cThis is the same story with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":62916,"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":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","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":"F j, Y g:i a","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":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"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":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[458,561,406],"class_list":["post-62915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-allan-ssewanyana","tag-muhammad-ssegirinya","tag-nup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915"}],"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=62915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}