{"id":24964,"date":"2021-07-12T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24964"},"modified":"2021-07-12T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:52:59","slug":"police-arrest-37-covidiots-in-bar-during-euro-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/12\/police-arrest-37-covidiots-in-bar-during-euro-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest 37 COVIDIOTS In Bar During EURO Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) Deputy spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire has revealed that the force has in its custody 37 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were arrested on Sunday night in a bar in Luzira on the outskirts of Kampala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;37 people have been arrested today for flaunting COVID-19 guidlines on bars . The operation was carried out in Luzira at Samaki Hub and floating Island . They are currently detained at Jinja Road Police and will be arraigned in court tomorrow,&#8221; Luke said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda is under a lockdown with 7pm curfew as part of measures put in place to limit the spread of COVID19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a related development, police have warned those planning demonstrations saying they will not allow them to flout Ministry of Health measures to prevent spread ofbthe disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lukowoyesigyire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Lukowoyesigyire<\/a> &quot;We have recieved information of a planned demonstration and riot by some disgruntled politicians. <br>It should be noted that it is illegal to plan any gatherings that contravene <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinofHealthUG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MinofHealthUG<\/a>  guidelines to prevent the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVID19<\/a><br>1\/2<\/p>&mdash; Uganda Police Force (@PoliceUg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceUg\/status\/1414437077178097664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We urge the planners of this activity not to continue with their actions. <br>They should look for other options to air out their grievances. The police will not desist from arresting anyone who will participate in such illegal activities.<br>2\/2<\/p>&mdash; Uganda Police Force (@PoliceUg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliceUg\/status\/1414437081988878339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) Deputy spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire has revealed that the force has in its custody 37 people. They were arrested on Sunday night in a bar in Luzira on the outskirts of Kampala. &#8220;37 people have been arrested today for flaunting COVID-19 guidlines on bars . The operation was carried out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24965,"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":[105],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964","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=24964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24966,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24964\/revisions\/24966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}