{"id":36785,"date":"2018-01-13T21:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-s-deputy-ambassador-to-us-sacked-for\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T21:11:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T21:11:57","slug":"uganda-s-deputy-ambassador-to-us-sacked-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-s-deputy-ambassador-to-us-sacked-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s deputy ambassador to US sacked for beating wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Dickson Ogwang has been asked to immediately pack his bags after he allegedly beat his wife. <\/p>\n<p>The State Minister for International Affairs, Mr Okello Oryem, confirmed the reports and said: \u201cOne of our officers had a domestic incident at his house that resulted in him being asked to leave the country; It is unfortunate and we at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recognise that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWhen he arrives, we shall counsel him together with his wife so that such a thing does not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okello, however, refuted claims that Mr Ogwang had been asked to leave after US police raided his home following the incident. <\/p>\n<p>According to information this publication has received, Mr Ogwang had allegedly hosted guests for a thanksgiving at his residence among whom included a lady he was having an affair with. <\/p>\n<p>Having raised insecurities about the said lady, Mr Ogwang beat up his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Ogwang waited for most of the guests to leave and severely beat his wife injuring her nose,\u201d a source told Daily Monitor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the incident was reported to police it became an issue of diplomatic concern as authorities in Washington wanted Mr Ogwang prosecuted,\u201d the source added. <\/p>\n<p>According to the source, a few guests who were still at the residence called in police to intervene and Mr Ogwang\u2019s wife was rushed to hospital. <\/p>\n<p>The American Embassy spokesperson, Mr Phil Dimon, when contacted referred us to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23738 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sacked.jpg\" alt=\"Dickson Ogwang \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department of the United States of America has asked Uganda\u2019s deputy ambassador to return home over domestic violence. <\/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":[75],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36785","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=36785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36785"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36785"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}