{"id":4591,"date":"2012-12-12T05:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T05:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-tanzania-mps-shine-in-nairobi\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T05:22:16","slug":"uganda-tanzania-mps-shine-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-tanzania-mps-shine-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda &#038; Tanzania MPs Shine in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Inter-Parliamentary Games continued in Nairobi on Sunday with the parliamentary teams from Tanzania and Uganda registering impressive victories.}}<\/p>\n<p>In netball, Uganda were the better side after beating EAC\/Eala 42-17 at the Nyayo National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The victors started the game on a high note taking the lead as early as the third minute when Goal Shooter (GS), Susan Ameyo scored the first point.  <\/p>\n<p>As the teams went to half time,  Uganda had taken a commanding lead of 17-3 with Susan Netalisire notching 12 points for her side.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, EAC\/Eala came back stronger, but the Ugandans who were more experienced, defended and attacked aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>In football, Tanzania got off to a good start beating an under-strength Kenya\u2019s Bunge FC 5-0. <\/p>\n<p>Amos Makalla opened the scoring for the Tanzanian team in the 21st minute when he curved a shot that beat the Kenya National Assembly goalkeeper. <\/p>\n<p>Yusuf Juma Gogo scored a brace in the 27th and 43rd minutes to ensure his team took a comfortable 3-0 lead at the breather.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of the Parliamentarians of Bunge FC were, however, away in a busy weekend of politics greatly costing the team. <\/p>\n<p>Owing to the rules and regulations that restrict the number of staff members playing, the team had only nine players on the field for a larger part of the game.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Joshua Nassari and Mark Tanda completed the scoring in the 52nd and 57th minutes respectively to send Tanzania to the top of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Inter-Parliamentary Games continued in Nairobi on Sunday with the parliamentary teams from Tanzania and Uganda registering impressive victories.}} In netball, Uganda were the better side after beating EAC\/Eala 42-17 at the Nyayo National Stadium. The victors started the game on a high note taking the lead as early as the third minute when Goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","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\/4591","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}