{"id":1724,"date":"2020-09-10T04:33:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T04:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearlfm.co.ug\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:06:35","slug":"police-raid-kanungu-cbo-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2020\/09\/10\/police-raid-kanungu-cbo-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Raid Kanungu CBO Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was chaos at the offices of the Integrated Rural Community Empowerment (IRUC), a local Community Based Organization-CBO in Kanungu district on Wednesday during an impromptu police raid for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Arans Tabaruka, a retired television journalist and founder of the CBO, says heavily armed police officers raided his offices shortly after he stepped out to place an announcement on Kanungu Broadcasting Services-KBS FM.<\/p>\n<p>Tabaruka, who is eyeing the Kinkizi East parliamentary seat on the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party ticket, says upon his return he asked the officers what was going in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Kinkizi East constituency is represented in parliament by the Housing State Minister, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi who belongs to the ruling National Resistance Movement-RM) party.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tabaruka, he believes the raid is connected to his political activities in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, says that the officers left empty-handed after ransacking every corner of his offices.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Tugumenawe, the Kanungu District Police Commander declined to comment on the raid when contacted by our reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was chaos at the offices of the Integrated Rural Community Empowerment (IRUC), a local Community Based Organization-CBO in Kanungu district on Wednesday during an impromptu police raid for unknown reasons. Arans Tabaruka, a retired television journalist and founder of the CBO, says heavily armed police officers raided his offices shortly after he stepped out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}