{"id":70462,"date":"2023-11-09T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T04:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=70462"},"modified":"2023-11-09T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T04:54:06","slug":"police-chief-downplays-terror-threats-at-nyege-nyege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/police-chief-downplays-terror-threats-at-nyege-nyege\/","title":{"rendered":"Police chief downplays terror threats at Nyege Nyege"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denis Edema<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police (DIGP) has downplayed <\/span>the terror alerts issued by the United <\/span>States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) <\/span>in Jinja City, describing them as ru<\/span>mours before urging the partying to <\/span>continue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maj Gen Geoffrey Tumusiime Kat<\/span>sigazi, who visited Jinja City and the <\/span>bank of the River Nile where the pop<\/span>ular music festival Nyege Nyege will <\/span>be held from today, said they are in <\/span>control and \u201cnothing\u201d will happen to <\/span>the revellers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been having all these <\/span>threats in the country; nothing is <\/span>new and there is nothing extraordi- <\/span>nary over and above what we have <\/span>been experiencing,\u201d Maj Gen Katsiga<\/span>zi said.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the US and UK issued <\/span>advisories, warning their citizens <\/span>against visiting Jinja City, two days <\/span>before the start of the popular Nyege <\/span>Nyege Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe FCDO (Foreign, Common- <\/span>wealth and Development Office) ad<\/span>vises against all but essential travel to <\/span>Jinja Town. There is a growing terror <\/span>threat in Uganda, including targeting <\/span>of foreigners. Avoid large gatherings, <\/span>including large-scale worship, and <\/span>music and cultural festivals in Ugan<\/span>da,\u201d the statement by the UK High <\/span>Commission reads in part.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another alert by the US Mission <\/span>read: \u201cDue to increased terrorist ac- <\/span>tivity, US Embassy Kampala recom<\/span>mends that individuals exercise an <\/span>elevated degree of caution and recon<\/span>sider attendance at upcoming large <\/span>public gatherings, such as large-scale <\/span>worship services and music and cul<\/span>tural festivals in Kampala and Jinja.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maj Gen Katsigazi said they are taking all means to ensure that security is guaranteed and Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) elements threatening peace of the country would be arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denis Edema Police (DIGP) has downplayed the terror alerts issued by the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) in Jinja City, describing them as rumours before urging the partying to continue. Maj Gen Geoffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi, who visited Jinja City and the bank of the River Nile where the popular music festival Nyege Nyege will be held from today, said they are in control and \u201cnothing\u201d will happen to the revellers. \u201cWe have been having all these threats in the country; nothing is new and there is nothing extraordi- nary over and above what we have been experiencing,\u201d Maj Gen Katsigazi said. On Tuesday, the US and UK issued advisories, warning their citizens against visiting Jinja City, two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":70463,"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":"","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":[608,141],"class_list":["post-70462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nyege-nyege","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70462"}],"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=70462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}