{"id":34698,"date":"2023-01-30T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=34698"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T10:58:13","slug":"top-mps-home-disconnected-over-power-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/30\/top-mps-home-disconnected-over-power-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Top MP\u2019s Home Disconnected Over Power Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denis Ssekabira, a member of parliament (MP) for Katikamu North, was allegedly stealing electricity when Umeme, a power distributor, conducted a raid at his residence and medical school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weekend operation in Luwero Town Council that targeted several homes and structures began at the lawmaker&#8217;s residence in Kizito Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Umeme authorities climbed the power pole and cut the power cables after being unable to get through the main gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on intelligence, Umeme officials searched the legislator&#8217;s St. Denison Health Training School in Kavule Zone, where they found evidence of unlawful connections. They also cut the school off from the electricity supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development was confirmed by Peter Kaujju, Head of Communications and Marketing at Umeme Limited, who stated that their workers on the ground discovered suspicious material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The power distributors, according to Kaujju, have started looking into the suspected power theft by the legislator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Ssekabira, a member of parliament (MP) for Katikamu North, was allegedly stealing electricity when Umeme, a power distributor, conducted a raid at his residence and medical school. The weekend operation in Luwero Town Council that targeted several homes and structures began at the lawmaker&#8217;s residence in Kizito Zone. Umeme authorities climbed the power pole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":34699,"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":[31,119,406],"class_list":["post-34698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news","tag-umeme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698","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=34698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34700,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34698\/revisions\/34700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}