{"id":18574,"date":"2020-09-20T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T08:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=18574"},"modified":"2020-09-20T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T08:55:20","slug":"nnalongo-jayne-kalumba-sweeps-maddu-town-council-polls-despite-intimidation-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/20\/nnalongo-jayne-kalumba-sweeps-maddu-town-council-polls-despite-intimidation-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nnalongo Jayne Kalumba Sweeps Maddu Town Council Polls Despite Intimidation, Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nnalongo Jayne Kalumba was on Friday victorious over Vincent Mugenyi, her rival in the race for the mayoral seat in Maddu Town Council, Gomba district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nnalongo polled 2, 773 votes against Vincent who managed 1, 590 in the hotly contested primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to Thursday\u2019s poll, security forces had been deployed in the area to stop any violence from happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9e427977-f0e2-4772-ac29-bc159152ffdb-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9e427977-f0e2-4772-ac29-bc159152ffdb-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9e427977-f0e2-4772-ac29-bc159152ffdb-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9e427977-f0e2-4772-ac29-bc159152ffdb-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9e427977-f0e2-4772-ac29-bc159152ffdb.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Jayne at Paragon Hospital on 18th<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jayne was admitted at Paragon Hospital with injuries on 18th as she left one of her rallies, something she blamed on her opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was attacked at the police station with stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four people were arrested following the incident but later released under mysterious circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/42f8f1fc-8bcc-4d8c-a05f-8b10d20ee166.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/42f8f1fc-8bcc-4d8c-a05f-8b10d20ee166.jpg 720w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/42f8f1fc-8bcc-4d8c-a05f-8b10d20ee166-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/42f8f1fc-8bcc-4d8c-a05f-8b10d20ee166-360x203.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>The people who were arrested and later released<\/strong><\/em><br><br>She was first admitted to Makula Clinic in Maddu Town council on 14th, then participated in the polls on 16th before being transferred to Paragon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nnalongo Jayne Kalumba was on Friday victorious over Vincent Mugenyi, her rival in the race for the mayoral seat in Maddu Town Council, Gomba district. Nnalongo polled 2, 773 votes against Vincent who managed 1, 590 in the hotly contested primaries. Prior to Thursday\u2019s poll, security forces had been deployed in the area to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":18575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574","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\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18582,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions\/18582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}