{"id":2530,"date":"2021-04-06T05:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:22","slug":"70-arrested-for-flouting-covid-19-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/04\/06\/70-arrested-for-flouting-covid-19-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Arrested for Flouting Covid-19 Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<p>At least 70 people are in police custody at Kagadi Central Station for allegedly flouting the COVID-19 guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were picked from various bars during an operation conducted by police and Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF\u00a0soldiers in the district on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Some were picked from Muhoro, Mabaale, Kiryanga and Kagadi town Council among other places. The suspects also include bar owners and prominent people in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Akello, the Kagadi District Police Commander-DPC says some of the suspects were found drinking in bars beyond midnight yet government has not yet permitted bars to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Akello said that operations against all persons found flouting the Covid-19 health and safety protocols were still on.<\/p>\n<p>She says operations to crackdown criminals and those flouting covid-19 guidelines will continue to restore sanity in the district.<\/p>\n<p>According to Akello, the suspects who are locked up at Kagadi Central police station will be charged under the Public Health Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale At least 70 people are in police custody at Kagadi Central Station for allegedly flouting the COVID-19 guidelines. The suspects were picked from various bars during an operation conducted by police and Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF\u00a0soldiers in the district on Sunday night. Some were picked from Muhoro, Mabaale, Kiryanga and Kagadi town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-2530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3473,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/3473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}