Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Former Head of Service Under GEJ, Steven Oronsaye Arraigned in Court, Granted N10m Bail
Former Head of Service during former President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, Steven Oronsaye, was today granted bail in the sum of N10 million by the Federal High Court Abuja.
Oronsaye is standing trial for a two-count charge of fraud and conversion of N190m meant for a government trust fund. He was arraigned by the EFCC this morning. See more photos of him below...
17-year-old Pregnant Girl Stoned to Death by Her Boyfriend
Nomfusi Dlekedla,17 was allegedly stoned to death by her boyfriend in Palm Ridge, SA, on Friday, March 11. Her heartbroken father, Nikiwe Dlekedia, 65, from Greenfields in Ekurhuleni told Daily Sun SA that his daughter was six months pregnant.
"When we went to his place on Saturday morning, the house was filled with bricks, the furniture was lying all over the place and my daughter’s face was smashed," said Nikiwe who is devastated over the brutal murder of his daughter.
He said he was told his daughter and the boyfriend were on their way home when he started assaulting Nomfusi. Neighbours said he was abusive and jealous. Nikiwe said he tried to get his daughter to dump the boyfriend several times but she didn’t listen.
"He would call her and she would disappear for days. It seemed like she was scared of him but she never told me the. The relationship was abusive. I heard it from her friends," he said.
The sad father said he was still expecting a lot from his daughter because she was very young. "Her siblings are devastated. When they heard the news some of them even fainted," he said.
Sergeant Rufus Tema who confirmed the incident said a case of murder has been opened. "No arrests have been made and we are continuing with the investigations" he said.
See This Gay Music Video Sparking Outrage In Kenya(Watch Video)
Kenya’s attempt to stop people from watching a music video celebrating gay couples is backfiring.
Barely three weeks after trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of Same Love, by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused to pull the video from YouTube, where it has now been viewed over 140,000 times.
Kenyan regulators banned the video in late February, claiming that the content threatens to turn the country into “Sodom and Gomorrah” and declaring that anyone caught distributing it would be punished. But the agency that banned it also retweeted a link to it—which ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s nascent gay rights campaign.
The video, made by Art Attack, is a snapshot of being gay in Kenya, where homosexuality is considered an “unnatural offense” punishable by imprisonment up to 14 years in prison. The chorus, “I can’t change even if I tried,” plays over a montage of newspaper articles headlined, “A disease worse than alcohol” and “Homos are filthy.”
The video cuts to images of anti-gay protests in Nairobi last year, ahead of US president Barack Obama’s visit, and two young women kissing on a bench in a forest, away from the public eye.
The video also features photos of the writer Binyavanga Wainaina, one of the few openly gay Kenyan public figures, as well as George Barasa, a Kenyan gospel artist who came out in 2013. “Somebody has to stand and speak against what is going on,” Barasa told Reuters earlier this month.
A lawyer for Google Kenya told the Kenya Films Classification Board (KFCB), the country’s regulator of all visual content, that it cannot take down the video because it operates separately from YouTube, according to local media reports over the weekend.
A spokesperson for Google in the US told Quartz by email, “YouTube has clear policies that outline what content is acceptable to post and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users. We review government removal requests when notified through the correct legal processes and in keeping with our company philosophy on transparency and freedom of expression.”
Even the head of KFCB, Ezekiel Mutua admits that homosexuality is an evolving issue in Kenya. Matua told local media that the country is dealing with a “war of ideologies” and that if a homosexual man applied for a job with the regulator he would not be turned away.
“But if they kisses another man in public,” he added, “they will be condemned.” Watch the video below...
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