{"id":2579,"date":"2021-05-12T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:21","slug":"museveni-sworn-in-as-president-of-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/05\/12\/museveni-sworn-in-as-president-of-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Sworn in as President of Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Yoweri Museveni has been sworn in for a sixth term as the President of Uganda.<\/p>\n

Museveni, 76 was sworn in at Kololo Independence Grounds, in a ceremony graced by several African leaders including the president of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, Tanzania\u2019s new president Samia Suluhu Hassan, Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s \u2013DRC Felix Tshisekedi and others.<\/p>\n

The others are Ethiopian leader Sahle-Work Zewde, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the president of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye, South Sudan President Salva Kiir, the president of Guinea Alpha Conde, Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and other guests.<\/p>\n

Museveni was declared by the Electoral Commission as the winner of the 2021 general elections after challenging seven other candidates including National Unity Platform-NUP\u2019s Robert Kyagulanyi, FDC\u2019s Patrick Amuriat, and DP\u2019s Norbert Mao, Independent candidates John Katumba, Nacy Kalembe and Joseph Kabuleta.<\/p>\n

Others are Alliance for National Transformation-ANT\u2019s Mugisha Muntu, Henry Tumukunde, Fred Mwesigye, Willy Mayambala.<\/p>\n

Museveni arrived at Kololo Independence Grounds at 11:30 a.m. accompanied by his wife, Janet Museveni.<\/p>\n

The Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama read the proclamation, declaring President Museveni as the duly elected President, before taking the oath.<\/p>\n

The administration of the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of the President was subsequently presided over by Chief Justice Alfonse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Leilah Bbaale Yoweri Museveni has been sworn in for a sixth term as the President of Uganda. Museveni, 76 was sworn in at Kololo Independence Grounds, in a ceremony graced by several African leaders including the president of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta, Tanzania\u2019s new president Samia Suluhu Hassan, Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s \u2013DRC Felix Tshisekedi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}