{"id":9977,"date":"2019-07-10T11:57:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:57:27","slug":"gen-jeje-odongo-to-present-statement-to-parliament-over-increased-city-killings-next-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/10\/gen-jeje-odongo-to-present-statement-to-parliament-over-increased-city-killings-next-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Jeje Odongo to present statement to Parliament over increased city killings next Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless of the newly installed surveillance cameras about town, city killings have been on a high rise recently and this has left many city dwellers worried for their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s because of this that Parliament summoned Gen. Jeje Odongo, the Minister of Internal Affairs to explain the increase of deaths in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Absent from Parliament, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga asked the Minister to present a statement to the House by Tuesday next week. &#8220;Minister of Internal Affairs should explain the killings and most of them are women,&#8221; said Speaker Kadaga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes at a time when two female mobile money operators and boda boda riders have been killed gruesomely leaving the populace worried and wondering what is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same tone, Ms. Kadaga asked Gen. Odongo to also consider a proposal to waive taxes on CCTVs in a bid to make it cheaper for anyone to acquire them thus ensuring safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the newly installed surveillance cameras about town, city killings have been on a high rise recently and this has left many city dwellers worried for their lives. It&#8217;s because of this that Parliament summoned Gen. Jeje Odongo, the Minister of Internal Affairs to explain the increase of deaths in the city. Absent from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":9978,"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":[],"class_list":["post-9977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977","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=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9979,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions\/9979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}