For such a person, stealing is a cultural issue. It is done with pride and ease to the gratification of his peers. Moral decadence becomes a way of life.Therefore, I am often not surprised when street urchins gorge out our side mirrors. That is the life they have known.When some of the victims of the Namungoona inferno chose to steal fuel other than deter the thieves from someone else's property, for me it clearly illustrated that stealing had become a cultural matter that brought a lot of pride to some families in Uganda.
President Museveni also once intimated to the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, that Uganda is full of iPhone headset. Last week, I was in Kenya's coastal area. While in Mombasa, I had a cultural shock which made me change my perception about some parts of Kenya. It also gave me a clue as to why Mombasa is more attractive to tourists than other areas of Kenya.
Granted, Mombasa has some of the best beaches and a well-developed hotel industry. But that is not the reason in my view why tourists flock there. It is culture. The Mombasa people abhor thieves.While in Nairobi one is worried about being attacked on the street with knife wielders, losing the wallet or having your drink spiced with drugs, especially if you patronise dingy bars, in Mombasa when your wallet drops and it has the identification papers, it will be returned to the owner with all its contents intact.
Why? The reasons are partly linked to the puritan culture of Muslims. Muslims are not raised to own wealth fraudulently. That is mali ya haramu or biashara ya haramu (forbidden wealth or forbidden business).
They believe that one must work for his wealth and in doing so he must not infringe on the rights of others. In fact, those who possess wealth are urged to lend money interest-free (bila riba) to their brethren, and when the borrowers prosper, then they are supposed to pass on the profits to the needy so as to uplift their lives as well.
Filming the Ballarat edition of the show commenced yesterday at Craig’s Hotel, where preliminary takes of the contestants entering the hotel could be seen by pedestrians.Curious passers-by stopped to take photos and catch a clear view of the remaining contestants, some taking to Twitter to spoil the surprise.
MasterChef Australia executive producer Margie Bashfield said the rich history of Ballarat was in line with the theme of the episode’s challenge.“When Masterchef moved from Sydney to Melbourne one of the things we wanted to do – which we weren’t able to do in Sydney – was get out of the city and into the regional areas of the state,” Ms Bashfield said.
“The beauty of being based in Melbourne is that there are numerous incredible regional areas all about an hour from our base at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds.“I had heard Craig’s Hotel being spoken about on Melbourne radio and thought we needed to check it out. “We came up and looked at a couple of locations and Craig’s Hotel was perfect. “It had all the necessary requirements for filming and it is a magnificent building with its own great history.”
Celebrity judges Matt Preston, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan will be in town today for filming.With clear, free eyes Bloodsworth has since campaigned against capital punishment and is now head of advocacy for Witness to Innocence, a coalition of exonerated death-row inmates who campaign against capital punishment.
Bloodsworth's most recent success was his leading role in the movement to end the death penalty in Maryland, the state that once tried to kill him. Governor Martin O'Malley signed the law abolishing that state's death penalty on May 2 this year.
Bloodsworth's ordeal began in 1984 when a neighbour saw on TV an identikit sketch of the suspect in the particularly savage rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl near Baltimore. The neighbour thought it looked like Bloodsworth and called the police.
Another eyewitness later incorrectly placed him with the victim. Despite his clean criminal record he was soon convicted and sentenced to death.''I was accused of the most brutal murder in Maryland history,'' Bloodsworth, now 52, told an audience during the Maryland campaign earlier this year. ''It took the jury 2? hours to send me to the gas chamber.''While on death row he read about a conviction secured by the use of DNA, a science the public had barely heard of in the early 1990s, and with the help of his lawyers and supporters he had his case thrown out.
The Puerto Rican-born fruit picker was convicted of murdering a beauty school owner in 1983 largely on the evidence of two suspect witnesses, one of whom was a paid informant who negotiated a deal in exchange for his testimony.
Melendez was on death row for 16 years before a defence lawyer found transcripts - not presented to the jury - of another man, Vernon James, confessing to the crime.Other defence lawyers soon found another 20 witnesses who heard James, who has since died, either discussing or confessing to the custom keychain, reported The Florida Bar News in 2009.
In December 2001, an appeals court judge granted a new trial and criticised the prosecutor for withholding evidence from the defence and jury about James' incriminating statements.Were the Timely Justice Act in place earlier, ''I would be dead today,'' Melendez says.About three years ago, Melendez was attending an anti-capital punishment conference in Pennsylvania when he locked eyes with the man who was to have executed him, Ron McAndrew, the former warden of Florida State Prison.
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