NEWS UPDATES AT 7 O’CLOCK WITH ORANGE. President Museveni has attacked the International Criminal Court (ICC) for summoning a seating president, despite the African Union resolution against it. ICC summoned Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta this week over a case related to election violence that rocked the country in 2007. Museveni said by doing so the ICC had despised the wisdom of all African leaders. He suggested that at the next summit, the African Union states withdraw their membership from the ICC and at the mention of that all the heads of state present at the Independence grounds nodded in agreement. Museveni said The ICC is turning out not be the value addition product that we had expected it to be. It is instead a biased instrument of post-colonial hegemony. The Electricity Regulatory Authority has increased the price of each unit of electricity used by domestic consumers from Shs518 to Shs518.7. For the commercial users the unit has increased from Shs471.8 to 472.5 and from Shs449.4 to Shs450.1 per unit used by medium industries. Large industrial consumers will pay Shs308.5 instead of Shs307.8 per unit used whereas urban authorities will pay Shs486.9 for street lighting up from Shs408.2. The new tariffs, which began applying at the start of this month, shall run until the end of this year. ERA’s chief executive officer Dr Benon Mutambi attributed the new tariffs to the increase of core Consumer Price Index and the price of some goods generally purchased by households, among other factors. All entrants into Masaka Regional Referral Hospital will be required to have pass cards following increased cases of child theft and disappearance of hospital property. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has threatened to sue a website that had listed him as one of Africas 10 richest leaders. The richestlifestyle website ranked Mr Jonathan sixth on its list, claiming his net worth was about $100m. A statement from the presidency said Mr Jonathans inclusion on the list had no factual basis and was an attempt to portray him as corrupt. The site has since removed the Nigerian leaders name from the list. In the sixth position, where Mr Jonathan was placed alongside King Mswati III of Swaziland, it now says this article has been removed and there is a link to another website evaluating his finances. President Jonathan has been criticised in the past for not declaring his assets publicly. The office of the presidency had threatened legal action unless the website retracted the article and offered an apology. RADIOCITY NEWS: BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU!
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:14:41 +0000
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