10AM UPDATE WITH Orange Following the arrest of people buying from vendors, KAMPALA Capital City Authority (KCCA) is auctioning goods and products impounded from street vendors in the city. The varieties of goods confiscated from several traders will be auctioned to the public. The traders some of whom are stilling serving their sentences in Luzira Prison could not collect their items from the KCCA stores despite efforts by the authority to inform the traders. KCCA spokesperson Peter Kaujju said that KCCA recently put out a public notice calling all the vendors whose goods were impounded to collect them but no one turned up. The health minister DR. Ruhakana Rugunda has warned districts that mishandle ambulances that they would have disqualified themselves from getting additional support. Speaking during the handover of two ambulances worth sh160m each to Koboko and Buhweju districts, Rugunda said that he is fulfilling a presidential pledge and asking the people to maintain them well because they will be replaced after five years. Health ministry permanent secretary, Dr. Asuman Lukwago, said the ambulances will be monitored for proper use. The UNs Human Rights Council (HRC) has set up a commission of inquiry into Eritrea, seen as one of the worlds most repressive states. The three-member panel will report back in one year. In a statement, the HRC condemned widespread and systematic human rights violations, including torture and other cruel punishments. Eritrea rejected the resolution. Human rights groups have previously called the country a giant prison. Amnesty International last year said some 10,000 Eritreans had been imprisoned for political reasons since independence from Ethiopia in 1993. This was denied by the government. Earlier this month, four Eritrean Catholic bishops took the rare step of publicly criticising life in the country as desolate. Many of the migrants who drowned off Lampedusa last year were from Eritrea. EU leaders meeting in Brussels have nominated former Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker as the next president of the European Commission. The move came despite strong opposition from Britain. Prime Minister David Cameron pushed for a vote on Mr Juncker - breaking with tradition - and 26 out of 28 countries backed him, UK officials said. Only Mr Cameron and Hungarian PM Viktor Orban voted against him. Mr Juncker is also likely to win a vote by Euro MPs. It is the most powerful job in Brussels - the Commission drafts EU laws, oversees national budgets, enforces EU treaties and negotiates international trade deals. RADIOCITY NEWS: WE BRING THE WORLD CLOSER TO YOU
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 07:10:22 +0000
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