{"id":5707,"date":"2015-07-10T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2015-07-10T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:55:25","slug":"ugandas-amama-mbabazi-i-will-not-back-down-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/07\/10\/ugandas-amama-mbabazi-i-will-not-back-down-after-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s Amama Mbabazi: I will not back down after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uganda&#8217;s former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has told the BBC he &#8220;will not back down&#8221; in his preparations for a presidential bid, despite his arrest on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Mbabazi, a former close ally of President Yoweri Museveni, was arrested while travelling to canvass support.<\/p>\n<p>The government says that he violated public order laws by attempting to hold meetings without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The president is widely expected to seek re-election next year.<\/p>\n<p>Leading opposition figure Kizza Besigye was also arrested on Thursday ahead of a planned campaign rally outside the capital Kamapala.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were later freed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mbabazi said he held President Museveni directly responsible for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mr Mbabazi said he would challenge Mr Museveni, 70, by seeking the nomination of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi has told the BBC he &#8220;will not back down&#8221; in his preparations for a presidential bid, despite his arrest on Thursday. Mr Mbabazi, a former close ally of President Yoweri Museveni, was arrested while travelling to canvass support. The government says that he violated public order laws by attempting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}