{"id":53145,"date":"2025-02-26T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/man-sets-himself-on-fire-at-ugandan-parliament\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:39:17","slug":"man-sets-himself-on-fire-at-ugandan-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/man-sets-himself-on-fire-at-ugandan-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sets himself on fire at Ugandan parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agaba alleged that his property was vandalized by National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters, leaving his family homeless. He set himself ablaze while donning yellow attire accusing the NRM of neglecting their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Agaba was pushed to the wall after being neglected by his party after his house was allegedly vandalized. It\u2019s alleged that he has sought help from the NRM secretariat for over a year without help hence opting to take his life.<\/p>\n<p>In videos makings rounds on social media, the man is seen covered in fire and later being helped by police officers and motorcycle riders who poured water on him to cool off the fire but sustained serious burn injuries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82473 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic_1-214.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Agaba, has set himself on fire at the entrance of Uganda\u2019s Parliament building.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man, identified as Benjamin Agaba, has set himself on fire at the entrance of Uganda\u2019s Parliament building, claiming he had not received support from his party, the National Resistance Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000082472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000082472,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-344.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-344.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-344.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-344.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-344.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-344.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53145","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53145"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53145"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}