{"id":10157,"date":"2019-07-19T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:46:04","slug":"no-one-should-ever-be-arrested-over-charges-related-to-annoying-me-president-museveni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/no-one-should-ever-be-arrested-over-charges-related-to-annoying-me-president-museveni\/","title":{"rendered":"No one Should Ever be Arrested Over Charges Related to Annoying me &#8211; President Museveni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 10 people have either been arrested or arraigned in court and charged with annoying the person of the President in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to a question from journalists on Thursday during a press conference at the Nakasero state Lodge, Museveni said the charge is archaic and was used by colonial masters against Ugandans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t mind being annoyed. I have no problem with being annoyed. That was a colonial charge that I used to hear about,&#8221; Museveni said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that the bigger challenge is in spewing lies, and that he would talk to the Police to see to it that they concentrate on the bigger issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe bigger issue is telling lies, inciting and sedition. Those are the areas of substance that police should concentrate on,\u201d said Museveni <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 people have either been arrested or arraigned in court and charged with annoying the person of the President in recent years. Responding to a question from journalists on Thursday during a press conference at the Nakasero state Lodge, Museveni said the charge is archaic and was used by colonial masters against Ugandans. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1938,"featured_media":10056,"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":[],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","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\/1938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10158,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/10158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}