{"id":37057,"date":"2018-03-05T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T08:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/museveni-replaces-security-minister-tumukunde\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:10:12","slug":"museveni-replaces-security-minister-tumukunde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/museveni-replaces-security-minister-tumukunde\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni replaces security minister Tumukunde, police chief Kale Kayihura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president tweeted the news, saying he was appointing General Elly Tumwine as Security Minister and Okoth Ochola as Inspector General of Police (IGP).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018In exercise of powers granted to me by the Constitution, I have appointed Gen Elly Tumwine as the Security Minister. I have also appointed Mr Okoth Ochola as the Inspector-General of Police. He will be deputised by Brig Sabiiti Muzeei,\u2019\u2018 read the president\u2019s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>General Elly Tumwine replaces General Henry Tumukunde while Okoth Ochola who has been the deputy IGP replaces General Kale Kayihura.<\/p>\n<p>Ochola will now be deputised by Brigadier Sabiiti Muzeei who has been the commander of the military police in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was the climax of the president\u2019s impassioned reassurance to Ugandans that the latest wave of crime would be solved by the government, just like armed rebellion and other problems have been solved in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The president, who has repeatedly called for the installation of CCTV cameras in urban areas as a means of fighting crime, recently added that it is time for Ugandans\u2019 palm prints and DNA details to be captured to aid the fight against crime.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24273 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kale_kayihura_yakuwe_ku_mwanya_w_umuyobnozi_wa_polisi_muri_uganda-793a5.jpg\" alt=\"General  Kale Kayihura\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24272 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gen._kale_kayihura_na_henry_tumukunde_akuwe_ku_myanya_yabo-0c3aa.jpg\" alt=\"General  Kale Kayihura and  General Henry Tumukunde \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24271 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uganda_museveni-cf9e8.jpg\" alt=\"Museveni&#039;s tweet\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Africanews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s president Yoweri Museveni has replaced the security minister and police chief in the country, following a spate of murders and kidnappings that have rocked the East African nation.<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/37057","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=37057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37057"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37057"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}