{"id":19670,"date":"2020-11-09T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=19670"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:15:46","slug":"minister-tumwebaze-to-police-stop-harassing-opposition-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/minister-tumwebaze-to-police-stop-harassing-opposition-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Tumwebaze To Police: Stop Harassing Opposition Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister of Gender, Labor and Social Development, Frank Tumwebaze has called on the police to stop giving opposition politicians media mileage by  harassing them through arrests and teargass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tumwebaze&#8217;s appeal is contained in a tweet he made on Monday saying the law enforcement body should find another policy of handling them instead of altercations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PoliceUg<\/a> what if u left those political actors? U are making them big issues when they aren&#8217;t &amp; undue advantage of sympathy. They enjoy it. Their game is to keep u in those altercations as they enjoy unceasing media attention..Get another policing option PLZ!&#8221; Tumwebaze tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His tweet followed reports that opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate, Patrick Oboi Amuriat and his supporters were teargassed in Jinja City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also comes at the start of presidential campaigns which are expected to go until January when Ugandans go to the polls to choose their next set of leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amuriat&#8217;s supporters had gathered along the highway to cheer him on as he headed further east to begin his campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, police arrested presidential candidate Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert aka Bobi Wine, moments after his nomination to run for the high office, an act that drew condemnation on police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Health ministry guidelines discourage the politicians from drawing crowds, and to only address a maximum of 70 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Gender, Labor and Social Development, Frank Tumwebaze has called on the police to stop giving opposition politicians media mileage by harassing them through arrests and teargass. Tumwebaze&#8217;s appeal is contained in a tweet he made on Monday saying the law enforcement body should find another policy of handling them instead of altercations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14031,"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":[31],"class_list":["post-19670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670","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=19670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19671,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670\/revisions\/19671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}