{"id":1708,"date":"2017-10-25T12:41:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T09:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T09:41:57","slug":"ngoobi-socialite-sets-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/ngoobi-socialite-sets-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngoobi, Socialite sets himself on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ngoobi, an alumni of Nkumba University and city socialite known as &#8216;Vegas&#8217; set his house ablaze, with himself inside.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1709\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922667636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922667636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922667636.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922667636-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922667636-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Some people say he was possessed by ancestral spirits that caused him to act as thus. They also backed this up with claims that this wasn&#8217;t the first time something strange was happening at Ivan&#8217;s house.<br \/>\nHowever, Ngoobi&#8217;s family denied these claims and indicated that this could have been a murder.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Ngoobi was at\u00a0\u00a0Lyamutunde village, Mpala zone in Katabi, Entebbe when this happened. His father however says they thought their son lived in Gayaza and were not aware of his movement to his girlfriends home in Entebbe. Ivan also had a bar, Las Vegas, near Nkumba University, and was in charge of Vegas Events.<\/p>\n<p>From our various sources, we have also come to know that Ivan is a socialite around town and has organised parties known as &#8220;blue parties&#8221; This time, the event was to take place on 26th October.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1710\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922662537.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922662537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922662537.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/10\/FB_IMG_1508922662537-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the body being removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the friends to the deceased reported to police that as they where preparing for this party, he witnessed his friend&#8217;s bedroom filled up with smoke due to the fire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_11814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11814\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11814 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thetowerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/The-body-of-the-deceased-Ivan-Ngobi-being-loaded-onto-a-police-truck-before-being-taken-to-Mulago-Hospital-for-a-postmortem.-Photo-by-Paul-Adude.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The body being put on a pick up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ngoobi&#8217;s friend Humphris helping the police with investigations and looking into the mysterious death of his friend.<\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_11815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11815\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11815 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thetowerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mr.-Humphrey-Kagimu-aboard-a-police-truck-as-he-was-being-taken-to-Entebbe-Police-Station-for-further-interrogation.-Photo-by-Paul-Adude.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngoobi&#8217;s friend<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ngoobi, an alumni of Nkumba University and city socialite known as &#8216;Vegas&#8217; set his house ablaze, with himself inside. Some people say he was possessed by ancestral spirits that caused him to act as thus. They also backed this up with claims that this wasn&#8217;t the first time something strange was happening at Ivan&#8217;s house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[2029],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-ngoobi-ivan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}