NEWS UPDATES AT 8 O’CLOCK WITH ORANGE! The Anti-corruption court has charged Arthur Murangira a city lawyer of embezzling 138milion shillings belonging to former President of Uganda law society Kasirye Andrew. While appearing before justice Lawrence Gidudu, Arthur pleaded not guilty to the charges. Prosecution alleges that between March 11th 2012 and November 2012 while being employed by Kasirye, Byaruhanga co. Advocates, Murangira embezzled the money which he received on behalf of the law firm. Murangira privately received the alleged money from a client identified as Balbinder Singh Gill a resident of Jinja which money belonged to the firm yet he had resigned from his firm. However Murangira told court that the money was in payment of a private legal aid that he had rendered to the alleged client. The assistant commissioner support services in ministry of health, Allison Kantarama has been handed over to the CID police for forgery and telling lies to the health committee of parliament. The committee chaired by Dr. Kenneth Omona made the decision after they found out that she had presented forged documents to the committee and lied that the association that was formed to benefit all nurses has not had a general meeting in the last three years. But according to the documents she presented, the meeting last sat 10 years ago. The committee also wants police to establish how Kantarama authorized people surrounding Mulago hospital to tap from the water meter of the hospital leading to accumulating water arrears amounting to 6.5bn that the hospital owes NWSC. The Uganda revenue authority has issued a travel ban to a city businessman Sully K.Mbuga who is believed to be a tax defaulter. Uganda revenue Authority acting commissioner General Doris Akol, says Mbuga has been evading paying tax amounting to more than 219million shillings. Mbuga is also said to have hidden his two hammers that URA was going to impound over the matter. URA says Mbuga is not to leave the country until he has paid off all his pending tax arrears. URA alleges that between July 2011 and June 2012, Mbuga failed to file income tax returns and was ordered to clear it in January this year which he has failed since then. However he has denied knowledge of the alleged taxes claiming that his businesses are not in Uganda but in South Africa and has also denied wanting to flee the country. Liberia has imposed a night-time curfew and has quarantined an area of the capital Monrovia in a bid to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the curfew would be from 21:00 local time to 06:00 (21:00-06:00 GMT). She said all movement would be blocked in and out of the West Point area. Meanwhile, three doctors with Ebola who started taking an experimental drug last week showed remarkable signs of improvement, a Liberian minister said. Information Minister Lewis Brown said the drug was given to one Nigerian and two Liberian doctors who had caught Ebola while helping to save the lives of other victims of the virus. Mrs Sirleaf blamed her governments failure to bring Ebola under control on the publics disregard for the advice of health workers and disrespect for official warnings. Liberia already imposed a state of emergency earlier this month, but the number of deaths from the disease has continued to climb. A mob attacked a health centre in West Point on Saturday, during which 17 suspected Ebola patients went missing. RADIOCITY NEWS: BRINGING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU!
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 05:09:41 +0000
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