{"id":34054,"date":"2022-12-05T09:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=34054"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T06:55:00","slug":"kneeling-doctors-beg-museveni-to-seek-seventh-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/kneeling-doctors-beg-museveni-to-seek-seventh-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneeling Doctors Beg Museveni To Seek Seventh Term"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of doctors in Uganda caused a stir over the weekend after kneeling before long-time President Yoweri Museveni and asking him to stand for a seventh term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 78-year-old leader has been in power since 1986. The next general elections are due in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctors representing the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) had attended a patriotism symposium in the capital, Kampala, when they were led by their leader to kneel before the president, according to media footage of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his speech, UMA boss Dr Samuel Odongo Oledo praised the president for transforming the country&#8217;s health system and improving the welfare of medical workers, the Nile Post news site reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went ahead to ask President Museveni to vie again in 2026 as a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gesture sparked controversy on social media, with many accusing the group of being subservient to politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheUMAofficial\/status\/1599144191690670080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tweet, the UMA distanced itself<\/a>&nbsp;from the gesture, saying it did not &#8220;represent modus operandi of the association&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said: &#8220;Uganda Medical Association has always engaged with the president through formal, professional ways including appreciating him through our annual awards.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of doctors in Uganda caused a stir over the weekend after kneeling before long-time President Yoweri Museveni and asking him to stand for a seventh term. The 78-year-old leader has been in power since 1986. The next general elections are due in 2026. The doctors representing the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) had attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":34056,"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":[31,780,119],"class_list":["post-34054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-uganda-medical-association","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34054","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=34054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34057,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34054\/revisions\/34057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}