NEWS UPDATES AT 12 O’CLOCK WITH ORANGE. Security organs have warned the prime Minister, John Patrick Amama Mbabazi to keep away from investigations into the 5th July Rwenzori attacks. While appearing before parliament yesterday, the premier accused police and IGP General Kale Kayihura of targeting innocent people for political reasons. However, deputy spokesperson Polly Namaye says that the force does not randomly arrest people but rather apprehends suspects who have been implicated by the intelligence reports. Parliament has been advised to institute a special committee to investigate torture claims by security bodies especially on street children. A Human Rights Watch report last week, cited police as the leading torture organ in the country. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga slammed the report describing it as daunting. He denied police involvement in child abuse especially on children who are not rioting. A $400,000 two year project promoting fish farming in West Nile and northern regions has been launched by government together with Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The project will include training a team of fish pond construction crew and teaching farmers how to rear fish. Adjumani fisheries officer, Peter Okunzi says that this will allow fish farmers to rehabilitate and stock their fish ponds because fingerlings will be sold to the farmers affordably. Fish farming seems the way to go, as the country’s fish stocks in the lakes have decreased due to illegal fishing. UK investigators are to start examining the flight data recorder from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane MH17. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch in Farnborough will start the process almost a week after the plane crashed in eastern Ukraine. Whitehall sources, meanwhile, say information shows some evidence was tampered with at the crash site. The sources said this included moving bodies and scattering the parts of other aircraft among the wreckage. All 298 people on board flight MH17 were killed in the crash in Ukraine on 17 July. They included 10 Britons on the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Suicide attackers have mounted a bomb and gun attack on a prison convoy in Iraq, killing 51 prisoners and nine police officers, security sources say. Roadside bombs exploded as the convoy was taking the prisoners from the town of Taji to the capital Baghdad 24km (15 miles) away. Gunmen opened fire and a battle ensued with security forces. It is thought the prisoners were being evacuated at the time. The prisoners are suspected to be militants. There were no immediate figures for casualties among the attackers. The attack comes almost a year to the day since gunmen stormed prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib, also in the Baghdad area, freeing hundreds of inmates. RADIOCITY NEWS: BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU!
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:09:05 +0000
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