{"id":9905,"date":"2019-07-01T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:13:32","slug":"museveni-extends-ofwono-opondo-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/01\/museveni-extends-ofwono-opondo-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Extends Ofwono Opondo Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Uganda government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo is on cloud nine after the country&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni extended his contract to three more years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opondo took to social media micro-blogging site Twitter to make the announcement and thank the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KagutaMuseveni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><s>@<\/s><strong>KagutaMuseveni<\/strong><\/a> has extended my contract of service for a further three-year period effective today July 1st, 2019. It is with great gratitude to continue to serve the President, the Government and Citizens of Uganda,&#8221; Ofwono wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opondo who also doubles as Uganda Media Centre boss is known for his passionate defence of the Uganda government positions, sometimes controversial and unappealing to the public eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is also a regular panelist on radio and TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda government spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo is on cloud nine after the country&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni extended his contract to three more years. Opondo took to social media micro-blogging site Twitter to make the announcement and thank the president. &#8220;President @KagutaMuseveni has extended my contract of service for a further three-year period effective today July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":9906,"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-9905","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\/9905","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=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9912,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/9912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}