{"id":1916,"date":"2017-10-24T16:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:57:11","slug":"mp-abiriga-fined-for-urinating-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/24\/mp-abiriga-fined-for-urinating-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Abiriga fined for urinating in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan MP has been fined by a court in the capital, Kampala, for causing a public nuisance by urinating in public after pictures of the incident were widely shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Abraham Abiriga was given a fine of 40,000 Ugandan shillings ( $10, \u00a35) for the 25 September incident near the gate of the ministry of finance.<\/p>\n<p>He was prosecuted under a city ordinance which says that if any person is found guilty of &#8220;easing in the city&#8221; or committing a &#8220;public nuisance&#8221; will be fined 40,000 shillings or will be imprisoned for two months or will receive both punishments.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abiriga was later confronted by a journalist about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He defended himself, saying: &#8220;Can I keep on keeping urine in me&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan MP has been fined by a court in the capital, Kampala, for causing a public nuisance by urinating in public after pictures of the incident were widely shared on social media. Abraham Abiriga was given a fine of 40,000 Ugandan shillings ( $10, \u00a35) for the 25 September incident near the gate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":1917,"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":[98,99],"tags":[123,109,118,119],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abiriga","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","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=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}