{"id":28678,"date":"2022-01-29T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T10:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=28678"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T10:13:06","slug":"ex-minister-father-lokodo-who-led-popular-crusade-against-homos-dies-aged-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/ex-minister-father-lokodo-who-led-popular-crusade-against-homos-dies-aged-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Minister Father Lokodo Who Led Popular Crusade Against Homos Dies Aged 64"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda&#8217;s ex minister of Ethics and Integrity, Father Simon Lokodo is dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, Father Lokodo passed on in Geneva, Switzerland. He was 64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Uganda Human Rights Commission, where he&#8217;s been a member tweeted the news.<\/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\">It\u2019s with great shock and pain that we\u2018ve learnt of the passing of our Honourable Member of the Commission, Fr. Simon Lokodo. He passed on this morning in Geneva Switzerland \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded. The Commission will share details in due course.<br><br>May the Almighty Rest His Soul in Eternal Peace. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G83VsgVxs4\">pic.twitter.com\/G83VsgVxs4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) (@UHRC_UGANDA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UHRC_UGANDA\/status\/1487351465161236482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 29, 2022<\/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\">Father Lokodo served as Minister of State for Ethics &amp; Integrity in the Office of the President from 2011 to 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously he was the Minister of State for Industry from 2009 to 2011. He also served as the elected Member of Parliament representing Dodoth County, Kaabong District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He won the admiration of Ugandans for leading a passionate crusade against homosexuality and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s ex minister of Ethics and Integrity, Father Simon Lokodo is dead. According to reports, Father Lokodo passed on in Geneva, Switzerland. He was 64. The Uganda Human Rights Commission, where he&#8217;s been a member tweeted the news. Father Lokodo served as Minister of State for Ethics &amp; Integrity in the Office of the President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":28679,"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":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-28678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678","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=28678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28682,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28678\/revisions\/28682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}