{"id":35526,"date":"2023-04-15T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=35526"},"modified":"2023-04-15T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T11:05:42","slug":"keith-muhakanizi-to-be-accorded-state-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/15\/keith-muhakanizi-to-be-accorded-state-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Muhakanizi To Be Accorded State Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yoweri Museveni, the president, has mandated that Keith Muhakanizi be given a state funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pascal Kwesiga, a communication advisor in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, said that President Museveni directed his office to work with Muhakanizi&#8217;s family to arrange for his remains to be returned to Uganda from Milan, Italy, where he passed away on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Prime Minister informed the President about Muhakanizi&#8217;s passing, and the President gave her instructions to coordinate efforts to bring his remains back for burial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Kwesiga, the President also ordered that Muhakanizi get an official funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muhakanizi was transferred from the Ministry of Finance, where he had worked in a variety of positions for more than 20 years, including Permanent Secretary and Secretary to Treasury, to the Permanent Secretary Office of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, Muhakanizi died as a result of complications from cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoweri Museveni, the president, has mandated that Keith Muhakanizi be given a state funeral. Pascal Kwesiga, a communication advisor in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, said that President Museveni directed his office to work with Muhakanizi&#8217;s family to arrange for his remains to be returned to Uganda from Milan, Italy, where he passed away on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":35490,"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":[31,8350,119],"class_list":["post-35526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-keith-muhakanizi","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526","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=35526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35527,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526\/revisions\/35527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}