{"id":3754,"date":"2021-07-29T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:17:25","slug":"fishmonger-in-police-uniform-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/fishmonger-in-police-uniform-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishmonger in Police Uniform Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Our Re<strong>porter <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Brenda Awino heard that with the appointment of the new cabinet the era of fishermen and women had arrived, she took the message literally. So the\u00a0Apac fishmonger went and got herself a police uniform and started going about her business without fear of being disturbed by security personnel enforcing the lockdown and inter-district travel ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donning her newly acquired police uniform, Awino has been traveling from\u00a0Chegere Sub County in Apac district\u00a0to Loro town in Oyam district to sell her fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awino has been doing brisk fish business for nearly 42 days until her luck ran out on Thursday\u00a0morning when a curious officer at Tarogari check point decided to interrogate her further. It became immediately clear that\u00a0Awino did not know anything a police officer should know,\u00a0except how to wear the uniform.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was immediately arrested and briefly detained at the nearby\u00a0Ibuje Police station, and after transferred under tight security to Apac Central Police Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>According to North Kyoga Police Spokesperson\u00a0Jimmy Patrick Okema, Awino will be charged with\u00a0impersonation and acting in a manner likely to spread a dangerous\u00a0disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter When Brenda Awino heard that with the appointment of the new cabinet the era of fishermen and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/fish.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1732,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/policeman-son-arrested-for-misuse-of-uniform\/","url_meta":{"origin":3754,"position":0},"title":"POLICEMAN ,SON ARRESTED FOR MISUSE OF UNIFORM","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"August 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Wandegeya Police Station has arrested and \u00a0detained Inspector of Police Luben Ngasaki\u00a0 and \u00a0his son, Walter Mumbere, for misusing a police uniform. 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