{"id":10035,"date":"2019-07-15T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=10035"},"modified":"2019-07-15T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:35:03","slug":"kabuleta-arrest-besigye-ready-to-testify-against-president-museveni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/kabuleta-arrest-besigye-ready-to-testify-against-president-museveni\/","title":{"rendered":"KABULETA ARREST: Besigye Ready To Testify Against President Museveni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former\nForum for Democratic Change Party president Dr Kizza Besigye said he is ready\nto stand as a witness in case where Joseph Kabuleta is charged of offensive\ncommunication against the person of the president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over\nthe weekend, police confirmed the arrest of veteran journalist cum-pastor,\nJoseph Kabuleta who went missing on Friday last week at Forest Mall at Lugogo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According\nto police, Kabuleta has ridiculed President Museveni on social media referring\nto him as a thief and gambler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police\nnoted that preliminary information Kabuleta posted grossly offensive messages,\nunder \u201cJoseph Kabuleta Weekly Rant Returns referring to the fountain of honour\nas a \u201cGambler, Thief and Liar\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Section\n25 of the Computer Misuse Act, 2011 criminalises such acts of communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last\nweek Joseph Kabuleta posted a message on Facebook titled \u201cMafia Empire and the\ntransition (Joseph Kabuleta\u2019s Weekly Rant Returns) where he questioned whether\nthe first son, Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the \u2018don\u2019 of the new\nera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\nthe same post, Kabuleta alleged that Muhoozi is being positioned to be the next\npresident but he has nothing to offer expect being his father\u2019s son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According\nto the police spokesperson, detectives are still carrying out investigation on\nKabuleta\u2019s conduct in a bid to get more information regarding the offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nissue upon landing into Besigye\u2019s ears, he confirmed his readiness &nbsp;to testify against the president Museveni <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Am\na ready witness for Joseph Kabuleta. if his case comes to the court of\nlaw,&#8221; He noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besigye\nrallied all the other witness to prepare and get ready to testify against\npresident Museveni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Forum for Democratic Change Party president Dr Kizza Besigye said he is ready to stand as a witness in case where Joseph Kabuleta is charged of offensive communication against the person of the president. Over the weekend, police confirmed the arrest of veteran journalist cum-pastor, Joseph Kabuleta who went missing on Friday last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":5420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-10035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10035\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}