Yesterday afternoon, loud gun shots could be heard from\nMulago as police tried to disperse people power supporters. They were furious about the death of their own,\na one Ritah Nabukenya who was run over by a police truck in Nakawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On reaching Mulago, the people power officials were denied\naccess to her body and this led to exchanges between them and the police. The police\nfired gunshots and tire gas everywhere to avoid the angry crowd. These were\nextended into the hospital and caused chaos as not even the patients were\nexcused from this violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some patients were transferred to other wards to avoid the\nnoise and the teargas which could be a trigger to worse conditions. The medical\nstudents\u2019 day was also disrupted and classes halted. This led to commotion\naround the hospital and some of the patients were misheld by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police also\nblocked the Mulago roads which led to a lot of traffic jam in Wandegeya and\nalong Kira road. The people power officials\u2019 were later allowed access to the\nlate Ritah\u2019s body which will be transported to their offices to pay last\nrespects by her colleagues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday afternoon, loud gun shots could be heard from Mulago as police tried to disperse people power supporters. They were furious about the death of their own, a one Ritah Nabukenya who was run over by a police truck in Nakawa. On reaching Mulago, the people power officials were denied access to her body and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19144,"featured_media":14157,"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":[99],"tags":[599,141],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-people-power","tag-uganda-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","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\/19144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14160,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}