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Bropleh for stealing -Dr Bropleh on gov’t workers WEDNESDA Y DECEMBER 05 2018 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 2 Continental News Police still investigating Bobi Wine over stoning Museveni’s car he Gulu Magistrate Kilama however said the investigations.Mr Kilama also E a r l i e r i n O c t o b e r, ruling concurred with the Court has again accused persons are incurring asked court to issue fresh Magistrate Yunus Ndiwalana defence team and tasked Ta d j o u r n e d t h e a lot of expenses in travelling summon against officers in who had been handling the prosecution team to speed up treason case against Kyadondo to attend the court sessions c h a r g e o f C r i m i n a l treason case had ordered the their investigation. East MP Robert Kyagulanyi since most of them stay in Investigation Departments CIDs to appear before the “I therefore urge the alias Bobi Wine and 34 other Kampala and Arua District. [CIDs] in Arua and Gulu court to explain why they are prosecution team to speed up suspects due to unfinished He asked court to compel Districts to appear in court still holding the said property inquiries. I also observed that police investigations. the state to expedite and explain about his clients’ which were allegedly being most of the accused persons Mr Kyagulanyi, Arua investigation adding that a (suspects’) property which used by SFC soldiers to track come from outside of this Municipality Member of l e n g t h y p e r i o d o f include vehicles, IPads, a n d c o n m o n e y f r o m jurisdiction and in fact none of Parliament Kasiano Wadri, and adjournment be given to them phones, laptops and money unsuspecting persons. them comes from within the 26 others on Monday appeared [state] to wind up with their still in police custody. Magistrate Kintu, who locality of this jurisdiction,” before Grade One Magistrate presided over the case in his he said.Reuters Isaac Imoran Kintu for mention of their case. The state contends that the 11 S.African peacekeepers accused and others still at large pelted stones at one of President Museveni’s car, convicted of abusing boy in DRC smashing its hind windscreen on August 13 during Arua leven South African said the statement.South Municipality by election soldiers have been Africa is one of the leading campaigns.Prosecution led by Ec o n v i c t e d o f contributors to the United Mr Paul Weponde on Monday mistreating a teenage boy N a t i o n s O r g a n i z a t i o n told court that they were not during a UN peacekeeping Stabilization Mission in the ready to proceed with the d e p l o y m e n t t o t h e Democratic Republic of the case because police are still Democratic Republic of C o n g o ( M O N U S C O ) , gathering evidence against Congo, the military said in a according to a UN briefing the suspects. statement. note. “My lord as usual, the The men, who were The conflict-torn former police is not yet done with the convicted of common law Belgian colony is heading for investigation, we pray for assault by a military court, long-delayed presidential adjournment,” Mr Weponde Ugandan pop star-turned-lawmaker Kyagulanyi dragged the 17-year-old into and parliamentary elections told Court.One of the defence Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine on December 23. lawyers, Mr Henry Komakech their base in southern Kasai province after he was caught The government, which allegedly stealing buckets in has a thorny relationship January, the military said with the UN, has rejected all Gabon president Monday. forms of international appears in video IBREVILLE (Reuters) - Arabia on Oct. 24, sources told however, has shared specific Gabon President Ali Reuters. details on Bongo's condition. LBongo on Monday The presidency initially said With his exact condition and made his first appearance he was struggling with severe w h e r e a b o u t s u n k n o w n , since falling ill nearly six fatigue and later said he had unsubstantiated rumors have weeks ago, in a video shared some "bleeding" that required s w i r l e d t h a t h e w a s by the presidency from his medical attention. incapacitated or dead. medical leave in Morocco. Bongo's wife last week said Gabon's top court ruled last Bongo suffered a stroke he was traveling to Morocco to month that the vice president while at a conference in Saudi continue his recovery.No one, would chair the cabinet in Bongo's absence. In the short video clip shared with journalists, Bongo appears sitting down in a blue and white robe alongside his S i x t e e n m e n w e r e financial or logistical old friend, Moroccan King originally charged under assistance for the election in Mohammed VI. The two men anti-torture legislation over a country nearly five times are seen chatting briefly, the incident but five were the size of France. though the video has no sound. subsequently cleared of all MONUSCO had suggested At one point, Bongo, who is charges, and the other 11 using its helicopters and seated at a right angle to the were not convicted of planes to ferry imported camera, the right side of his torture. voting machines to polling face obscured, sips on what "The chief of the South stations nationwide. appears to be a glass of milk.The Bongo family has African National Defence But Kinshasa wants to see ruled the oil-producing West Force (SANDF), General Solly MONUSCO gone by 2020, African country for nearly half Shoke, welcomed the speedy ending a 20-year presence a century. Bongo has been trial and the successful that has seen 16,000 troops president since succeeding his conviction of those guilty of deployed at an annual cost of father, Omar, who died in 2009. assault and tarnishing the m o r e t h a n a b i l l i o n PHOTO: Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba addresses a His re-election in 2016 was good name of the SANDF dollars.AFP meeting on climate change at the 30th Ordinary Session marred by violent protests peacekeepers in the DRC," amid claims of fraud.Reuters WEDNESDA Y DECEMBER 05 2018 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 3 Editorial Commentary By Mariana Mazzucato The LEC against itself Putting the Public SERVICES PROVIDED BY the Liberia Electricity Corporation Back in Public Health (LEC) to the public leave much to be desired despite huge investment in that entity. Current situation at that entity is As pharmaceutical companies continue to ratchet up drug prices, the burden on characterized by managerial in-fighting at the detriment of public health agencies like the UK's National Health Service is becoming customers. As the LEC continues to raise fist against itself, unsustainable. Rather than looking on as public investments are channeled into business entities, residential homes, ordinary Liberians and private profits, governments need to step in to guide innovation toward the general public are left alone with little or no services at all. collective goals. NEWS THAT ESB International, the private company ONDON – The United Kingdom’s National With health-care systems often failing to provide Health Service marked its 70th birthday patients with the treatment they need at a price contracted by the Government of Liberia to manage the LEC this year, so this is a good time to reflect they can afford, and with health innovation not is alleging the existence of a rogue element within the L on the NHS’s past and consider its future. The addressing public health needs, the status quo is corporation that is deliberately, and in many cases, NHS has long been a source of inspiration in not sustainable. But to restore public purpose to bypassing control procedures and necessary organizational health-care debates around the world. But if it health-care provision and innovation will require changes is a stab in the back of the corporation. is not put on a more sustainable footing, it the kind of transformation that the NHS’s could become a cautionary tale. founders ushered in 70 years ago. IN CLEAR TERMS, ESB International has reportedly written an official complaint to the Board of Director against Deputy When the NHS was founded in 1948, its mission, To that end, the first step is to acknowledge Managing Director, Joseph Howe for thwarting initiatives to provide universal high-quality health care, governments’ vital role in the development of aimed at bringing major breakthroughs to LEC. was daringly radical. In time, though, it came new treatments and drugs. Rather than simply to represent a fundamental pillar of the funding innovation, governments need to start ESB INTERNATIONAL IS a private company hired by the modern welfare state, alongside education and directing it with the same level of involvement Government of Liberia under the Millennium Challenge public provision for old age.