By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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Power blackout has disrupted a court hearing involving UAP insurance firm and its former employee. The hearing scheduled for Tuesday (Yesterday) was adjourned after power went.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cToday, we were ready to proceed with the hearing but unfortunately the court is not working because there is no power-they are lacking power,\u201d the plaintiff\u2019s advocate, Marko Reech told journalists.<\/p>\n A well-placed source, who spoke to this outlet on condition of anonymity alleged that many cases have been adjourned for the last two days Monday and Tuesday due to a power outage.<\/p>\n However, lawyer Reech explained that it is difficult for the judge to be in a courtroom without power.<\/p>\n \u201cThe power has almost two days since yesterday up to today, there is no power and it is difficult for the judge to continue in the courtroom without power,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n He highlighted that should there be power, he would seek a judge\u2019s approval to fix a new date.\u00a0 Mr. Reech was also hopeful that the electricity would be back soon.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are expecting power to be available today or tomorrow,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe next sitting we will fix it, judge, is in the courtroom if the judge comes tomorrow, we fix a day and we will let you know,\u201d he affirmed.<\/p>\n In October last year, UAP and its national staff were in dispute over unfair treatment and differing wages for nationals compared to their foreign expatriate counterparts.<\/p>\n That forced about 70 national staff to stage a sit-in-strike, bringing the UAP insurance business to a standstill.<\/p>\n UAP insurance company thereafter dismissed at least ten national staff for calling for improved pay, contrary to the Ministry of Labor\u2019s order calling for the reinstatement of 10 fired staff.<\/p>\n This, however, forced the UAP National Staff Association (UNSA) to initiate a legal case against the Insurer Company.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk Power blackout has disrupted a court hearing involving UAP insurance firm and its former employee. The hearing scheduled for Tuesday (Yesterday) was adjourned after power went. \u201cToday, we were ready to proceed with the hearing but unfortunately the court is not working because there is no[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33788,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787\/revisions\/33788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}