Sinn Féin MLA Gerry Kelly should have been prosecuted over an incident in which he was carried on the front of a police vehicle last June, DUP MP Nigel Dodds has said. The incident followed the loyalist Tour of the North parade in Belfast. Mr Kelly said he had been given an "informed warning", which is a formal reprimand by the police. While it is not a conviction, it is recorded on a person's criminal record for 12 months. A police spokesperson said they did not comment on named individuals. Mr Dodds said Mr Kelly should not have "escaped conviction for blatantly obstructing the PSNI in the operation of their duties". "The soft handling of this case by the justice system stands in stark contrast to other cases over the past year, with custodial sentences given to bandsmen for playing a flute and to others who have obstructed the police in the operation of their duties," he said. TUV leader Jim Allister said: "This will do nothing to restore loyalist faith in policing, but, rather, it will perpetuate the present disconnect." However, Mr Kelly said: "I have always believed that this is a matter which should not be brought before the courts."
And the bile spread by the missionaries over the centuries continues to rear its ugly head: Zambian police have arrested and charged an opposition leader with defamation, after he compared the president to a potato, a party ally has said. Frank Bwalya, head of the Alliance for a Better Zambia, allegedly referred to president Michael Sata as "Chumbu Mushololwa" during a live radio broadcast Monday. The Bemba term literally refers to a sweet potato that breaks when it is bent and is used to describe someone who does not heed advice. "The police decided to arrest and charge him with defamation of the president," Eric Chanda, the secretary general of Alliance told AFP. If convicted, Bwalya faces a maximum jail term of five years. Bwalya, a former Catholic priest and supporter of Sata when in opposition, is just the latest opposition leader to run afoul of Zambia's leader. In September, Nevers Sekwila Mumba of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy was questioned by police after calling Sata a liar. Ex-president Rupiah Banda has been hauled before the courts on numerous corruption charges. "President Sata is the same old man who was on all radio stations defaming former presidents Banda and Mwanawasa and nobody arrested him," said Chanda. Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_...-charged-for-calling-president-a-potato-2767/
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