{"id":8623,"date":"2013-11-14T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2013-11-14T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:30:57","slug":"opposition-rejects-tribunal-report-on-lukwago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/opposition-rejects-tribunal-report-on-lukwago\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition rejects tribunal report on Lukwago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Besigye-Lukwago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8624\" alt=\"Besigye &amp; Lukwago\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Besigye-Lukwago.jpg\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the opposition have rejected findings of a KCCA tribunal that could see the Lord Mayor thrown out of office.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal set up to investigate a petition by 17 councilors regarding Erias Lukwago\u2019s performance has found him guilty of incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>The report released this morning among other things; points to failure by the lord mayor to convene meetings as stipulated by law.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister for Kampala, a meeting is to be convened in 14 days to decide Lukwago\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>However, vowing to block the move, the opposition has announced plans to hold a grand rally in the capital on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The rally will be addressed by the lord mayor to explain to the voters details of the tribunal report.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media at a joint press conference, former FDC leader Dr Kiiza Besigye urged government to respect the power of the people.<\/p>\n<p>Some legislators too, have criticized government for deliberately targeting the Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago.<\/p>\n<p>Western Youth MP, Gerald Karuhanga and Shadow local government minister Betty Nambooze say the investigations were an attempt to curtail the powers of the Lord Mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Karuhanga suggests that a by election be held, which he is confident Lukwago will win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the opposition have rejected findings of a KCCA tribunal that could see the Lord Mayor thrown out of office. The tribunal set up to investigate a petition by 17 councilors regarding Erias Lukwago\u2019s performance has found him guilty of incompetence. The report released this morning among other things; points to failure by the lord mayor to convene meetings as stipulated by law. According to the minister for Kampala, a meeting is to be convened in 14 days to decide Lukwago\u2019s fate. However, vowing to block the move, the opposition has announced plans to hold a grand rally in the capital on Monday. The rally will be addressed by the lord mayor to explain to the voters details of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8624,"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-8623","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\/8623"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}