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Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa's former bodyguard has opposed the legislator's application to have a murder case against them transferred to a lower court.
\"Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for five minutes of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?\"
Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for 5 mins of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?
— Mickela (@mickelapanday) October 21, 2021
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) David Abdulah said, \"Does the UNC understand what they are doing? Their actions are seeking to dangerously divide the country. It is not about democracy. They are laying the basis for justifying why their motion will not succeed.
\"This is a serious issue but I am reminded of Explainer's Calypso – In Parliament they kicksin. The motion will be defeated
The Court of Appeal has thrown out an application brought by private bodyguard Phillip Harris to overturn a decision by the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA) to revoke his firearm user's licence.\tThe permit was revoked in June 2019....
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has made adverse findings against Premier Alan Winde and his MEC Anton Bredell after complaints laid by GOOD member of the provincial legislature, Brett Herron.
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has written the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate allegations of nepotism in the promotion of senior officers at Malawi Police Service (MPS). In a letter to the Ombudsman, CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa said CDEDI has established that there is no officer from the southern […]
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ALL 11 police officers charged with misbehaviour in public office and perverting the course of justice for allegedly dousing a suspect with hot water during an interrogation in February 2015 will face trial.
Ten of the 11 were freed of the charges against them in 2019, when a magistrate held the evidence presented at the preliminary inquiry was manifestly unreliable for all but one of the officers, who, at the time, was committed to stand trial.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions recently obtained a judge’s warrant for committal for the ten in accordance with the Indictable Offences Act.
The act allows the DPP to apply to a High Court judge for a committal warrant so that an indictment can be filed for an accused person to face a trial.
It was alleged the officers doused suspect Ralph Andre Lewis with hot water and pepper sauce during an interrogation in 2015.
Last year, Lewis, of Coronation Street, Sangre Grande, was awarded $300,000 by a High Court master as compensation for his injuries.
Master Sherlanne Pierre ordered the State to pay $210,000 in general and aggravated damages and $50,000 in exemplary damages. The State was also ordered to pay the $41,000 in legal fees that Lewis incurred.
Lewis claimed that on February 24, 2015, he went to the Sangre Grande Police Station, as he had heard officers wanted to question him over several housebreakings in the district.
He was detained for 48 hours before the interrogation started. His lawsuit for assault and battery claimed he was forced to confess and was beaten with a PVC pipe.
He also claimed cups of boiling water were poured down his pants in his groin area and pepper sauce rubbed on the burns on his penis and surrounding areas.
Lewis was then taken to the Sangre Grande District Hospital for treatment and released from custody after being discharged.
The post Cops to face trial for 2015 assault on Sangre Grande man appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
The resolutions arose out of a meeting of ODM delegates from five counties held in Kakamega on Friday.
[GroundUp] A number of homeless people in Durban have registered to vote in the upcoming local government elections.
[Vanguard] As #EndSARS protesters commemorate the first anniversary of the protest that erupted from Ughelli, Delta State, to other parts of the country over police brutality and extra-judicious killings, three victims of the protest have sued the Federal Government at the ECOWAS Court for justice.
This was after Kangai wrote to Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi on September 28, 2021 imploring him to expedite prosecution of NetOne’s million-dollar corruption scandal, which implicated Mandiwanzira, who was, however, acquitted of the charges by the High Court.
The post Mandiwanzira lashes out at ‘malicious’ Kangai appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
[Premium Times] \"The publicising of the proceedings made lawmakers to sit up and take the act of law-making, because no one wants to be caught on camera... ... .\"
Governor Mutua, through lawyer Harrison Kinyanjui, demands Bonface Mwangi pulls down defamatory video.
Linner Towett has worked for Kenya power in different capacities for 33 years. She continues to support needy families, vulnerable children and people
Nairobi County Assembly is banking on issuance of title deeds to public open spaces to keep away land grabbers.
[Cameroon Tribune] The Regional Development Plan is the vital tool for preparing the budgets of Regional Authorities but most Regions are still in the process of their elaboration.
SPEAKER of the House of Representatives Bridgid Annisette-George rejected claims from Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar that it was wrong for no debate to be allowed on a motion Persad-Bissessar had filed.
She was asking for a tribunal to be appointed to investigate the removal of President Paula-Mae Weekes from office.
Persad-Bissessar's motion is in relation to events that led to the collapse of the Police Service Commission (PSC) last month and the failure to send a merit list of candidates for a commissioner of police (CoP) to be sent to the House for consideration.
Speaking at the start of an extraordinary sitting of the House on Thursday to hear Persad-Bissessar's motion, Annisette-George rejected Persad-Bissessar's assertions.
As she gave her explanations, Annisette-George was repeatedly interrupted by UNC MPs. They claimed she was not giving Persad-Bissessar an opportunity to respond to her, or for the House to debate the motion, their microphones were being shut off and there was an attempt to silence the Opposition.
Annisette-George said, \"A motion is defined as a proposal brought before the House for a decision. In general, motions are indeed debatable and can be amended.\"
But she reminded MPs, \"There are several exceptions and I am certain that the more seasoned parliamentarians, including the Honourable Leader of the Opposition, are familiar with them.\"
She said one such exception is a motion under Section 36 (1) of the Constitution, the section under which Persad-Bissessar's motion was filed.
Annisette-George said to compare this motion with a standing order 41 motion is misguided.
\"A standing order 41 motion, which initiates a debate, is decided by a majority vote in the House.\"
Annistte-George said, \"It is strikingly odd that the Leader of the Opposition would refer to a clear provision of the Constitution as 'absurd.' All of us assembled here swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, the very Constitution that the member is now labelling as absurd because it is at variance with her misguided opinion.\"
She said she was astounded by claims of bias that Persad-Bissessar had made against her and senator Charrise Seepersad, sister of Bliss Seepersad, former chair of the PSC, who resigned over the issue.
\"I am of the opinion that these issues do not arise. It is absurd to suggest that any or every person who has participated in processes that are not the specific subject of this motion should be disqualified from participating in these proceedings.\"
As she moved her motion later in the sitting, Persad-Bissessar tore up the guidelines for the sitting and subsequent meeting of the Electoral Colleges, declaring, \"These guidelines are illegal and null and void.\"
Reiteratiing earlier complaints from UNC MPs, she said, 'The Opposition is participating in these processes under duress.\"
As Persad-Bissessar sought to comment upon conclusion of her presentation, UNC MPs complained that Annisette-George was silencing Persad-Bissessar.
They refused to allow Annisette-George t
Police dismiss a report doing on social media that they will mount roadblocks along major roads in the city
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes on Thursday urged people not to disrespect the Rastafarianism religion, unconvinced that a convicted cannabis possessor was a member of the faith. He made the comment after Ryan O’Brian Ellis, who was recorded as having no fixed place of abode, claimed to be Rastafarian and used cannabis that had been found […]
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