{"id":37256,"date":"2026-06-16T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37256"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:12:39","slug":"outrage-as-uganda-chief-army-boasts-about-opposition-politician-arrest","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/outrage-as-uganda-chief-army-boasts-about-opposition-politician-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as Uganda Chief army boasts about opposition politician arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_divRplyFwdMsg\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Uganda&#8217;s army Chief, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has sparked outrage after boasting online about the detention of opposition politician and lawyer Erias Lukwago.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"ltr\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>In a series of posts on X, Kainerugaba shared images showing Lukwago in custody.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Lukwago was reportedly seized by military personnel at his home on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On the time of his arrest, he was preparing legal action against Kainerugaba over the alleged abduction of veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Leading Kenyan lawyer and former Justice Minister Martha Karua says they are concerned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37257,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37256","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Detention of opposition politician and lawyer Erias Lukwago","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37258,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37256\/revisions\/37258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}