{"id":36550,"date":"2017-12-19T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ngoga-elected-new-eala-speaker\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:18:07","slug":"ngoga-elected-new-eala-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ngoga-elected-new-eala-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngoga elected new EALA Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday vote, Ngoga got 33 votes beating his Burundian contestant, Leontine Nzeyimana who got three votes of the total 36 voters.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker\u2019s election follows the swearing-in of EALA members on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ngoga will preside over the House and direct its activities for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>EALA is an organ of the East African Community established in 2001 with the mandate of legislation, representation and oversight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23298 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ngoga.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Ngoga\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan, Martin Ngoga has been elected the Speaker of the 4th East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), replacing Ugandan Daniel. F. Kidega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36550"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36550"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}