{"id":8253,"date":"2024-10-24T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2024-10-24T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T13:52:07","slug":"hoima-city-meat-dealers-protest-over-arrest-of-their-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/10\/24\/hoima-city-meat-dealers-protest-over-arrest-of-their-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoima City Meat Dealers Protest Over Arrest of Their Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Godfrey Muhumuza<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Butchers in Hoima have announced a demonstration, refusing to slaughter any animals starting Thursday morning, in protest of the continued detention of their chairman, Norman Kimarahunga.<\/p>\n<p>Kimarahunga was arrested a week ago after being called to the police to provide a statement regarding a cow found at the Kiryatete slaughterhouse without a proper mark.<\/p>\n<p>The butchers have stated that the protest will continue until their chairman is released.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday last week, police in Hoima summoned Norman Kimarahunga the Hoima Butcher men association chairman, to make a statement to police over a cow that was found in their slaughter in Kiryatete without a proper mark.<\/p>\n<p>Following several demands to have Kimarahunga released but with no positive response from security, these have resolved for a demonstration not to slaughter cows until their chairman is released.<\/p>\n<p>Sharif Muhanuzi, a butcher man, said they can&#8217;t continue working with their chairman in detention with no clear reason.<\/p>\n<p>Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson said they held Kimarahunga to help them in their investigation over cattle theft that had increased in Hoima area and Bunyoro at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Godfrey Muhumuza Butchers in Hoima have announced a demonstration, refusing to slaughter any animals starting Thursday morning, in protest of the continued detention of their chairman, Norman Kimarahunga. Kimarahunga was arrested a week ago after being called to the police to provide a statement regarding a cow found at the Kiryatete slaughterhouse without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}