Babylon at its best in the midst of corruption and conniving. One cabinet member jailed, some of her relatives on the run, the prime minister, boss of the parliamentary and a number of ministers all got their share. Looked like good friends 'enjoying life ' .
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Ugandan Karamoja Affairs minister Mary Goretti Kitutu, 61, arriving at the anti-corruption court where she was charged with corruption and conspiracy to commit felony IMAGE SOURCE,REUTERS By Patience Atuhaire BBC News, Kampala
A Ugandan cabinet minister is to spend Easter in jail after being charged over a scandal involving the theft of thousands of metal roofing sheets.
They were intended for vulnerable communities in the north-eastern Karamoja region.
Mary Goretti Kitutu Kimono, the minister for the region, pleaded not guilty in court but was denied bail.
At least 10 other senior government figures are alleged to have received some of the stolen corrugated iron.
These include the vice-president, the prime minister, the parliamentary Speaker and other ministers, according to the inspector general of government.
Some of them told a parliamentary committee investigating the corruption scandal, involving 14,500 missing iron sheets, that they had not asked for them.
The prime minister has apologised and urged other officials to return the sheets. Speaker Anita Among told the house that she had returned the ones she had received.
One minister was recently forced to remove some from the roof of his goat shed, local media reported.
Karamoja has for decades faced persistent droughts and flooding when it rains, leaving many in the semi-arid north-eastern region dependent on aid.
'Not true' Mrs Kitutu will remain in custody until next Wednesday. It is alleged that instead of distributing the roofing materials to Karamoja communities, she gave them to her relatives and officials.
"I have understood the charge and it's not true," she responded in court, speaking firmly.
[....] She has been charged alongside her brother, Michael Naboya Kitutu, who pleaded not guilty to receiving 100 of the corrugated iron sheets.
The minister's court appearance was highly anticipated. On arrival, she covered her head and face with a piece of cloth to shield herself from the clamouring media.
Her lawyer had applied for bail, arguing that she was a high-profile senior citizen, had medical complications and would not interfere with prosecution witnesses.
But the prosecution fought for her to remain in custody, telling the court that Mrs Kitutu had prevented her mother, in whose house some sheets were recovered, from recording a statement to the police.
Her sister-in-law, niece and daughter-in-law, all alleged to be involved in the scandal, are on the run.
Corruption scandals involving high-profile government officials are common, but it is rare for them to resign or be sacked.
Communications Minister Chris Baryomunsi said any decision on Mrs Kitutu's future would be taken after police investigations had been concluded.
"Irrespective of who you are, you have to face the law," he said.
President Yoweri Museveni has called for the prosecution of all those involved.
No other officials have yet been charged over the scandal.
Isn't what African countries should have done since the 1960s ( African main Year or Independance ) ? How did people end up buying foreign supplies using another country's currency ?
Oniks001: Rightly said but they replaceable. China is undergoing the biggest and largest transformation the world have even seen.new Cities built from scratch, Subway systems. Road construction. All these are done using mostly their own Chinese made heavy trucks ,and they are tough and durable. Brands like faw, sinotruk, foton,jimbei ,Jac , Jmc and SANY.
Chinese are importing goods from Europe and North America, Who even told you that Africa will not overtake and distance China, and the US. You want all continents to be at the pace at the same time
Can Trump still run for president? Your top indictment questions, answered Zachary B. Wolf Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Updated 3:53 PM EDT, Sat April 1, 2023
“Nothing stops Trump from running while indicted, or even convicted,” the University of California, Los Angeles law professor Richard Hasen told me in an email.
The Constitution requires only three things of candidates. They must be:
A natural born citizen. At least 35 years old. A resident of the US for at least 14 years. As a political matter, it’s maybe more difficult for an indicted candidate, who could become a convicted criminal, to win votes. Trials don’t let candidates put their best foot forward. But it is not forbidden for them to run or be elected.
As a political matter, it’s maybe more difficult for an indicted candidate, who could become a convicted criminal, to win votes. Trials don’t let candidates put their best foot forward. But it is not forbidden for them to run or be elected.
Other restrictions don’t apply to Trump There are a few asterisks both in the Constitution and the 14th and 22nd Amendments, none of which currently apply to Trump in the cases thought to be closest to formal indictment.
Term limits. The 22nd Amendment forbids anyone who has twice been president (meaning twice been elected or served half of someone else’s term and then won his or her own) from running again. That doesn’t apply to Trump since he lost the 2020 election.
Impeachment. If a person is impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate of high crimes and misdemeanors, he or she is removed from office and disqualified from serving again. Trump, although twice impeached by the House during his presidency, was also twice acquitted by the Senate.
Disqualification. The 14th Amendment includes a “disqualification clause,” written specifically with an eye toward former Confederate soldiers.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
The indictment in New York City with regard to the hush-money payment to an adult-film star has nothing to do with rebellion or insurrection. Nor do potential federal charges with regard to classified documents.
Potential charges in Fulton County, Georgia, with regard to 2020 election meddling or at the federal level with regard to the January 6, 2021, insurrection could perhaps be construed by some as a form of insurrection. But that is an open question that would have to work its way through the courts. The 2024 election is fast approaching.
It means she is used to talking to like-minded people , people who are always evolving in the same paradigms as her. Once the assumptions were disproved ( challenged) she got lost and used "crying" as an escape back door. .
It should be what American brands is the among the most popular in Africa. To that extend , one could name CATERPILLAR. That company does not need to pay for any advertisement in Africa for being known, even in the most remote areas where road were built.
Since Obama opened that pandora box with a U.S. president lobbying for LGBTQ rights in Africa, American officials are becoming really noisy on that non-issue. They are telling us our noble natural -order inclined traditions should be thrown through the window to make a space for their post- modernism confused way of living. We are also going to ask them to legalize polygamy. It's about time an African president who visits the US asked for the law of the land to protect polygamists. We will see how they will react. Americans are welcome to Africa any time of the year, but they must understand we are different, they must also understand not every American agrees with the LGBTQ culture.
Why are the post modernism Western president thinking they have the right change everybody way of living? Biden should care about the destruction caused by tornadoes down south his country and build brick soldi house for low income families there. All the billions of $ wasted in Ukraine could build at least 1 million houses in America.
Why can't he rest near the ocean in Southern Nigeria? there is more clean air there than what he is going to breath in Europe. Come on. Any time this happens with an incoming African president, we must tell ourselves we are heading to the wrong direction.
Bloomberg President-Elect Leaves Nigeria to Rest in Europe After Campaign
Ruth Olurounbi Thu, March 23, 2023 at 6:43 AM EDT·1 min read
Bola Tinubu, who will be inaugurated as president on May 29, will visit Paris and London before traveling to Saudi Arabia to take part in a pilgrimage during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that begins on Thursday, his spokesman said in a statement.
“While away, the president-elect will also use the opportunity to plan his transition program,” according to the statement. His office didn’t say when Tinubu would return.
Tinubu, 70, is a frequent visitor to London and spent 90 days in the city in 2021 undergoing and recuperating from knee surgery. He dismissed concerns about his health raised by opponents during the campaign before last month’s presidential election.
Visits to London for health-care aren’t uncommon for Nigerian leaders. Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari was a frequent traveler to the UK capital for medical reasons, which overshadowed his rule of Africa’s most-populous country.
100 % agreed. The rest of us keep saying that that liar Tony Blair should be arrested, same thing for Nicolas Sarkozy . Those people destroyed Libya with the help from Obama who acted like a house negro helping the white man .
More than 400 years after the beginning of the triangular slave trade, we are surrounded again by the very same people.
Nick Turse, America's Empire of African Bases POSTED ON NOVEMBER 17, 2015
Does Eleven Plus One Equal Sixty? AFRICOM’s New Math, the U.S. Base Bonanza, and “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa BY NICK TURSE In the shadows of what was once called the “dark continent,” a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design. But look hard enough and — north to south, east to west — you’ll find the fruits of that effort: a network of bases, compounds, and other sites whose sum total exceeds the number of nations on the continent. For a military that has stumbled from Iraq to Afghanistan and suffered setbacks from Libya to Syria, it’s a rare can-do triumph. In remote locales, behind fences and beyond the gaze of prying eyes, the U.S. military has built an extensive archipelago of African outposts, transforming the continent, experts say, into a laboratory for a new kind of war.
So how many U.S. military bases are there in Africa? It’s a simple question with a simple answer. For years, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) gave a stock response: one. Camp Lemonnier in the tiny, sun-bleached nation of Djibouti was America’s only acknowledged “base” on the continent. It wasn’t true, of course, because there were camps, compounds, installations, and facilities elsewhere, but the military leaned hard on semantics.
Take a look at the Pentagon’s official list of bases, however, and the number grows. The 2015 report on the Department of Defense’s global property portfolio lists Camp Lemonnier and three other deep-rooted sites on or near the continent: U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, a medical research facility in Cairo, Egypt, that was established in 1946; Ascension Auxiliary Airfield, a spacecraft tracking station and airfield located 1,000 miles off the coast of West Africa that has been used by the U.S. since 1957; and warehouses at the airport and seaport in Mombasa, Kenya, that were built in the 1980s.
That’s only the beginning, not the end of the matter. For years, various reporters have shed light on hush-hush outposts — most of them built, upgraded, or expanded since 9/11 — dotting the continent, including so-called cooperative security locations (CSLs). Earlier this year, AFRICOM commander General David Rodriguez disclosed that there were actually 11 such sites. Again, devoted AFRICOM-watchers knew that this, too, was just the start of a larger story, but when I asked Africa Command for a list of bases, camps and other sites, as I periodically have done, I was treated like a sap.
“In all, AFRICOM has access to 11 CSLs across Africa. Of course, we have one major military facility on the continent: Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti,” Anthony Falvo, AFRICOM’s Public Affairs chief, told me. Falvo was peddling numbers that both he and I know perfectly well are, at best, misleading. “It’s one of the most troubling aspects of our military policy in Africa, and overseas generally, that the military can’t be, and seems totally resistant to being, honest and transparent about what it’s doing,” says David Vine, author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World.
France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Spain took over those islands ,some of which were surely under African influence in the past. That part of History has been hidden for sure. It is time Pana-African forces get ready to take back what once was part of our lands.
obedience4: So the japan pm vistinng keiv is now your evidence that the west wants Japan to invade china and Russia.
Do you have a brain??
Japan lacks the manpower and military might to lunch an attack on china or Russia.
Japan is an economic buffer to china an it's own, when it comes to military it will have to coordinate with USA forces in Japan and other USA allies like South Korea In Asia
Yeah. Keep underestimating Japan. Might be surprised one day, the same way the US got caught off guard at Pearl Harbor.
Sevenworldpower: Warped thinking. Most nations would soon be multi-racial societies. That is direction.
That is a quote from lost folks who want to bring the whole world to their confused world. Looks like the same people who thing a man marrying another man is normal everywhere in the world. We are Black Africans . No brown , no blue , no yellow, no red and we do not want to be called anything else.
mysticwarrior: those languages you mentioned do not have any written records, if you had mentioned the Numbian language and Amharic which is the language of the Ethiopians it would have been more understandable.
Not true. Moreover bot having written records does not mean not having existed.
Japan's prime minister making a "surprise visit to Ukraine" at the very same time China's strongman is in Moscow ( to show support to Putin) .
1. Japan Prime Minister Kishida makes surprise visit to Ukraine to meet Zelensky By Jessie Yeung and Teele Rebane, CNN Updated 10:21 AM EDT, Tue March 21, 2023 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise trip to Ukraine to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – a day after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Kishida arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday afternoon local time, and also traveled to Bucha, the town just north of the Ukrainian capital that has become synonymous with Russian atrocities and alleged war crimes. Emine Dzheppa, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said the country “is happy to welcome” the Japanese premier. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/20/asia/japan-ukraine-kishida-zelensky-intl-hnk/index.html
Lies. Who told you that Nigerian languages such as Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba are not older ? Who to told you Cameroon's Bamileke is not older ? Who told you that Ghana's Ashanti is not older? Who told you that Lingala in the DRCongo is not older ? Who told you that Côte d'Ivoire 's Wê or Guro is not older ? Who told you that Mali's Bambara is not older ? The list goes on.
castro316: The illuminati are after him. This is getting serious
He should have contacted Africans for wisdom and insights to get some sense of how the witches act. They don't put their hands on their targets but activate what will push the latter to say or do stupid things that will trigger or accelerate a demise.
If the justice system decides to arrest Trump, it will. No-one can intimidate New York City, not to talk about the state of New York.
Trump Claims His Arrest Is Imminent and Calls for Protests, Echoing Jan. 6
His indictment by a Manhattan grand jury is expected, but its timing is unclear. By Maggie Haberman, Jonah E. Bromwich, Ben Protess, Alan Feuer and William K. Rashbaum March 18, 2023Updated 1:18 p.m. ET
With a Manhattan grand jury indictment likely but its timing unclear, Donald J. Trump sought to rally supporters to his side, declaring that he would be arrested on Tuesday and calling for protests.
Mr. Trump made the declaration on his site, Truth Social, at 7:26 a.m. on Saturday in a post that ended with, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
Two hours later, a spokesman issued a statement saying that Mr. Trump had not written his post with direct knowledge of the timing of any arrest, adding, “President Trump is rightfully highlighting his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system.”
But Mr. Trump’s social media post had immediate impact: Within hours, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, one of the most powerful people in federal government and who partly owes his position to Mr. Trump, posted on Twitter that he was calling for investigations into whether federal funds were being used for “politically motivated prosecutions,” a thinly veiled threat to Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
Prosecutors working for Mr. Bragg have signaled that an indictment of Mr. Trump could be imminent. But they have not told Mr. Trump’s lawyers when the charges — expected to stem from a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star — would be sought or an arrest made, people with knowledge of the matter said. At least one more witness is expected to testify in front of the grand jury, which could delay an indictment, the people said.
Foreign Affairs › Wole Soyinka Should Have Run For President In The Past Nigerian Election by panafrican(op): 1:44am On Apr 12, 2023
Rent some route to tourists visiting New York. That is it. Da place is kinda to big.
