{"id":19542,"date":"2020-11-02T16:22:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=19542"},"modified":"2020-11-02T17:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:04:14","slug":"ec-throws-out-presidential-candidate-john-katumba-for-not-having-tin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/ec-throws-out-presidential-candidate-john-katumba-for-not-having-tin\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Throws Out Presidential Candidate John Katumba For Not Having TIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Electoral Commission has rejected independent candidate, Katumba John for having no Tax identification Number (TIN) and failure to pay Shs20million required before nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the media after rejection, Katumba said that he had carried the money in cash but was dismissed as the electoral body required the money deposited in the bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Katumba said that he wanted to pay the money in cash other than bank because he has no TIN Number which is a requirement to pay in bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have been trying to reach out to the EC. I failed to pay because I don\u2019t have a TIN number. I can\u2019t have a TIN Number when I\u2019m not employed or I don\u2019t have a business,\u201d John Katumba said on why he hadn\u2019t paid Shs20m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Katumba left his car behind after it got a tyre puncture and decided to run to the nomination venue in order to be on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Katumba was expected to be nominated at 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission has rejected independent candidate, Katumba John for having no Tax identification Number (TIN) and failure to pay Shs20million required before nomination. Speaking to the media after rejection, Katumba said that he had carried the money in cash but was dismissed as the electoral body required the money deposited in the bank. &nbsp;Katumba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":19543,"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":[356],"tags":[2169,593,31,3811],"class_list":["post-19542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-2021-general-elections","tag-electoral-commission","tag-featured","tag-john-katumba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542","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=19542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19544,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions\/19544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}