{"id":778613,"date":"2020-01-08T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/08\/ugandan-president-criticised-after-elderly-kneel-at-his-feet\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:54:35","slug":"ugandan-president-criticised-after-elderly-kneel-at-his-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/08\/ugandan-president-criticised-after-elderly-kneel-at-his-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan president criticised after elderly kneel at his feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.africannewsagency.com\/public\/ana\/media\/image\/2019\/11\/21\/56903049Uganda%E2%80%99s-President-Yoweri-Museveni.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-more-body\" data-reactid=\".19okqvzl8se.1.e.0.0.0.5.1\"><!--sse--><!-- C-ON- TEXT_CONTENT_START --><\/p>\n<p>\n PRETORIA &#8211; A video of long-term Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni handing brown envelopes to elderly people as they knelt before him has provoked criticism online.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n The video may have first been tweeted by a digital consultant who was taking part in Museveni\u2019s six-day march through the jungle, which started on January 5, according to reports.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n The video shows people singing, banging a drum and the president sitting down and being handed a brown envelope from an aide.\n<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".19okqvzl8se.0.1d\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {\n                        if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {\n                           n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                        fbq('init', '794201197427829');\n                        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n                           <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".19okqvzl8se.1.4\">(function(d, s, id) {\n                    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n                    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n                    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n                    js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9\";\n                    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n                  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\" id=\"facebook-jssdk\" async=\"\" data-reactid=\".19okqvzl8se.1.u\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA &#8211; A video of long-term Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni handing brown envelopes to elderly people as they knelt before him has provoked criticism online. 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