{"id":8814,"date":"2019-03-24T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2019-03-24T18:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T15:53:37","slug":"minister-nantaba-survives-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/minister-nantaba-survives-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Nantaba Survives Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nState Minister for Information and Communication Technology Hon Ida Nantaba has\nsurvived an attempted assassination in Kayunga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nincident took place on Sunday 24<sup>th<\/sup> March 2019 in Kayunga while on\nhis way to Kampala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unknown\nassailants who were traveling on a sport bike opened fire on Nantaba\u2019s official\ncar before she informed security operatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\nsurvived and her guard gunned down one assailant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda\nPolice Spokesperson, Fred Enanga confirmed the incident and promised to issue a\nfull statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nKayunga legislator was suspicious of the men on the motorbike before she called\nthe Nagalama Police station which alerted other stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nPolice is now investigating the incident as the hunt for the other gunman\ncontinues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ngunmen were traveling on a motorbike REG NO UDL 822A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bike.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bike.jpg 540w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bike-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/bike-236x420.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This\nis not the first time for the high-profile person to be attacked by unknown men\nin the same manner by gunmen travelling using motorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among\nthe high-profile figure that were murder in the same style include sheik Maj\nKigunddu, sheik Hassan Bayiga, State Prosecutor Joan Kagezi, Ibrahim Abiriga,\nFelix Kaweesi and the recent one being Muhammad Kirumira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Hon Ida Nantaba has survived an attempted assassination in Kayunga. The incident took place on Sunday 24th March 2019 in Kayunga while on his way to Kampala. Unknown assailants who were traveling on a sport bike opened fire on Nantaba\u2019s official car before she informed security operatives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":8815,"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":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-8814","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\/8814","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\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8817,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}