{"id":6735,"date":"2018-11-29T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2018-11-29T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:38:10","slug":"police-intercept-gun-wielding-hooded-man-on-boda-boda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/police-intercept-gun-wielding-hooded-man-on-boda-boda\/","title":{"rendered":"Police &#8216;Intercept&#8217; Gun-wielding Hooded Man On Boda Boda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda Police have &#8216;intercepted&#8217; a hooded man riding on a boda boda, armed with <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Kalashnikov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikhail Kalashnikov&#8217;s\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0infamous automatic rifle, the Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK-47).<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Ugandans were taken aback after the man in a blue hood rode freely among other motorists, raising eyebrows with some fearing he could be one of the assassins who have taken out prominent people before.<\/p>\n<p>Many were left wondering whether the hooded man was a security guard.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6739\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1-768x708.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1-456x420.jpg 456w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1-640x590.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1-681x627.jpg 681w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/8eefe836-54ba-467b-b8eb-69da4130bc97-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, a new picture has emerged showing a police officer interacting with the hooded man, allaying fears he could be a hitman on a mission to put people out of action. It is not clear where the police intercepted him from.<\/p>\n<p>Former Deputy police chief, Andrew Felix Kaweesi, Joan Kagezi a former prosecutor and fallen lawmaker Ibrahim Abiriga are some of the prominent Ugandans who were killed by assassins riding on boda bodas.<\/p>\n<p>Following their assassinations, President Museveni ban the wearing of hoodies as one of the security measures to curb the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda Police have &#8216;intercepted&#8217; a hooded man riding on a boda boda, armed with Mikhail Kalashnikov&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0infamous automatic rifle, the Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK-47). On Wednesday, Ugandans were taken aback after the man in a blue hood rode freely among other motorists, raising eyebrows with some fearing he could be one of the assassins who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":6738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,105],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-crime","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","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=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}