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Wedne.day, May 9,2012
Vol. 1 No.35
an, 22, arrested over friend's death at Gwarimpa ously punchl"8 him. whkh mark Chinycrc
THE police Il5t ThUJ'S(by arrested a 22year- old rr:an. Earnest VlClor, foraUegtdty killing his 23-}Uf-old frknd. Chin)'l"ft' Edw.ud. at Smaha Est:ue, Gwarimpa. A wilncs:s said thai the two friends engaged wI' violent fight at about 0900b0un.. -Before I could ~te the: fight. Uf' nest ovcrpuwered Otinycrc and was sen-
coOapSt. "We rushed him to a gcnu.tl hospilaJ at Ufe Camp but doctors confirmed him d~d: the wilnc:u slated. He Aid whm Earnest was told of his h-knd's d~th: he ned hls aparupml bul ""Uarrt'Sttd by the poIk:earter a rrport was made 10 them aboullhc incident The susp«l. Earnest Victor, who was
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wailing uncontrollably. told our nponer thai he hls friend In a fight over N24 ,OOO
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ant 10 thiI 'end, adding that whenever be wanted 10 0 the fricDcfs apartment 10 collect his molley. Chin~ would phone !he frknd 10 alert him ofhls miMlon and he would disappear. '" discovtted that w~ J go 10 the
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woukI be oowhtre to be found until SOffie+ one told me that it was OUnyere who was Informing the guy and I confronted him but he started insuJting me. "We slmed fighting and I didn't know he would dk. II was not my Intenlion to kill him and I regre1 my actions,~ Earnest lame nt~
Randy pastor's confession stuns magistrate B, Abubakat V.kubu THF.confes.sion of a pastor berore a Chief Magistrate Court siul ng al Masaka in Nasal7lwa ~ale, r«nllly slunned Chier Ma~istrale Mariam Nyada and spectators. Pastor Sunday Amiowe was contntCled by II family to pray for a skit mothe:r in her lale 20~ and ended up caoslng gnevous hun 10 her. whicb ltd 10 her .dmisslOn in • hospital. The polic~prosoeculor h:ad Iold the court thll the pastor. wlto mides It Riverside Masaka, wenlto lh~flmlly 'shouseon April IS aL 2100 hours under Ihe pretat 10 pray for II sick mother (nlmes WIthheld) Hesaid in lheprocus..lhe paslorciimbed on the woman's nghtleg and also mnlCled .senous Inlury on her mouth. thereby com· milli ng an oflence punishable under Sec· liar 243 orthe Penal Code \'.'hen the chuge was read 10 the
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gi farmers plead for cassava market ""' ...
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.~ at Ebaglln AbaJI Mea Coun+ cil bavc lled 00 the council authorities WId olba dcvInl govunmeot agenckl to establish a OISSlIva markd for thtm. Thq-aynplained that It 1, alway. aHaculean ta...4c: 10 take their harvest 10 other rnarkrt a+.mWliUes.
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Chid""AbduUahi lsah,.lamenled that most oflhr commuDity memben are fournet'S, whose Olliln-:a produce roe: aWlilf 10 &.mu
due to lact. of a standby market. r:or now, what "'e do ",1th harvested cassava il lo use the:m to make guri and Ioa.I c:assaV1l meals for our consumption as there II nO marktt for the iJC!m5,- hesald. The viI1a~ had how~r commend«i the (oundl' chairman, ~laji MUB YaMYll, forgmtlns the only road linking thecommunh), with Pandagi and called On the FCI' administration 10 assist in asph.all inglhe road. '''Ib.e councilauthontics hlrve bied. for us in this cornmunjtyas thtygavew poIable water, electricity and ~ I Jlyfng boat, +
,,'hk:h we use to cross to other \-i1b.ges.-. hoe
mtN. He aid community dders and youlhJ
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or the area who usually meet every Friday for a peace forum apra.sed satisfaction with the peaceful a>+existence being experienced In the community, Rtactlng. Press S«re1aJ')' 10 t.h~ coun'
cil chairman. Umar Salibu Komoo. said t.h~ community has not tabled the amYl
marUt n"quest to th~ council He ho\o.'e\~r said slnc~ he is .....-are.
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will communicale same to the authorities to look lnto it.
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