20090511 TZHC Dar es Salaam

AT DARES SALAAM ;r - t:ft:~.Y CRIMINAL SESSIONS CAS'E NO. 40 OF 2008 • ; · ···.~ ~, : J -~'),tr ; ~t . · , ~Pf-1r;:;:J.1/U.~Jf!(t,'l- l. RASHID s/o liAJi:·':pENbEKEZI@ KIATU 2. SHABANI ~/o ~~q.~ ~INGOI@ TEACHER "l 1 i ~- / -~i: 3. MWEMA s/o MUS~A MTENDERWA , . -~-!: .}_.,:~J,t, . ' Date of last Order Date of Ruling SHANGWA, J. The first accused Rashiq ;E-faji Pendekezi @ Kiatu and the second accused Shabani Sah;p:n iJyiingoi @ Teacher together t ,l ·. !" • with the third accused Mw'~Af~~iir{~~·~ Mtenderwa were charged L . ·;l),,,n. }Y°'j:,;,:,f.t · . . .,. ~}:.,t. ,;.;, . -: ,~-· with murder C/S 196 oftntKtral Code [ Cap. 16 R.E. 2002]. ,. '\,,· ,,_ . )·'.. . ·. ; '; ./ :r . The particulars of the qffen@e ';... '~- ~·•' f-:':! ,, charged are that on or about 29 th August, 2005 ·at . Kilti~a Road, Kibiti area within 't~it- P~.~ .. ffi,'J.}}; 4 •1 the District of Rufiji in Coasf iR~g~orr, the accused persons t ,. • .-::' jointly and together did mui::der;::0,n~ Tatu Kassim Ngokoro. _, ,'~;;!}l}r ~ ,, --~) On 6 th October, ~.QO:%\~Jirf~tr~arge was read over and (' .. ~~.:r):-~}i:•:s1 ~~~i1ri-1~ .' ' ·.. 1 .f, ·- .• .,. ''.' explained to them. On be}1q,g~~ked to plead, all of them denied . ~;';,4,~hlit; ~- -. to have killed the deceasea"''.TattilKassim Ngokoro. Their trial .:,, . started on 28 th April, 2009_. T;h~. ij,rosecution was led by Mr . . "' •.' .1 :/!( •· Mkakatu, State Attorney;.· for -i~~, ~epublic. The accused {',~t • ~.,..h, s~i{ )~ < ~ persons were represented by )'v-Jt3k~:pi Solomoni, Advocate. The ; .' ~ ·. {~. i court sat with three as~f~..~5211"&·:J:}¥,l,ffiely Mr. John Mkandawile, ... ' ~ .t'.'1.ti~. -~ ~- (i- The facts of this CJJ·f+f;.~~J:lich .are not in dispute are as 1 ; ·~}"-~\i:i~\tk"': • •)\,.,)~•- .~t, l ,.- '••, follows:- That, one Tatu Kassirri 1Ngokoro is dead and that she died on 9 th August, 2005 at Kiluvya Road, Kibiti area Rufiji . ·./:~~ .\~· r-:~i- 'r't ' . r~lt~~ll:-~fn . /f.,•: r -:. 2005, she was exhumed and examined by the Doctor who ' ;., ,} : {\ . found that her vertebrae had beei{fractured something which caused her death. :' .;·,;1:i h:~tr- '. ·. ~ ' 'ft;(f}. -~~ •.t ?" ~( ·:· The prosecution allegcla.\ that on the fateful day at Kibiti !~.,~-.. --.. area, Rufiji, Coast Region 1 ..tqe {:~@'teased was drinking local ,;;,. ·:·,I\fhi1:tf1i~}\(J: ··. brew known as w anzuk:i:. j~~:l~d~lri~1n house which was being ... :_,.•.~;/.(\, .~;i\~.tfJ ' -·· :. u;,l ~-r~r, •!,1'~,:::;t ',<' · rented by the accused per~Q~,$:. ,"7"hile doing so, a fight ensued .- '· • ; ; •·J· between one Salum Matangwfl and the first accused Rashid Haji Pendekezi @ Kiatu. The. ~~1pb_#~; accused Salum Mingoi @ •, ...~.j-✓ ·.,:,.~jr.~·., interfered to separate them~ h\vas·,turther alleged that Salum }f /., {,;.;· seriously beaten until Sah.~-~-M~f~:tjgwa became unconscious • > , .•, , ~ L,- .-.. \..., and that due to the factitt1t~i1t~~~i~p,sed persons thought that ,. ,:1-ii~~!nr{~t;, tt\ ·' Salum Matangwa wa~··rc;%1~ , _ and the fact that Salum .'l'i:',. t. ~: ~ /i,&r•. ,'. Matangwa was the boy friertd,, of Tatu Kassim Ngokoro, they conceal any possible evideq9e .': gy~Pr Salum Matangwa whom , ~-~ -i -',;, -.. ' .,· -~--. they thought had died wiie~£'~;:$~~~fne unconscious. " 1 i6lif. ~ ' - :·_,!; The prosecution called. five· witnesses to prove its allegations. However, none .of ~®.e,~ ¢~\"7itnesses gave evidence to 1 .. t~ 'i ,-~-::, show that the accused persqn;:J~~ the ones who killed the deceased Tatu Kassim Ngokoro. 'F1ie whole· case is based on ·, .. ~.: -,-~ _t~, .. '·. mere suspicions by the· iJff'flS,¢c:i'.i.tion that the deceased was murdered by the accused :ee!.s3?~.,~?r in order to conceal any . .. ,.: ·-•' ', . .. .. ' . ,,;.,. ,.:; '..'. ;., . possible evidence that ,1w6~~;,l};t:,,i·B#ii,it. ;1 \ ::t~v; 1ftJ:.r~-i~{~ I shown '" that one Salum .,•.. t -·\;: ~l,r.:~, Matangwa who became ":~ip:~ijhs~iuus after being beaten by 'i' them was killed by them. '}. 1( t% !-~?1~\, -,··'.:-:r... The following is what the pr-o'secution witnesses told this ~•t!".;,lt.t ~ ~~ ~<.,. --·. •' ~ Court: P.W 1 Shamte MopamJd Ngµtukwe simply stated that 7 -· ,. .,. he is a village Chairman' g(ti~:?it(Kati village, and that on 30 th August, 2008 at 5.00 a.m,. s~¥9~.;t~pple from his village went to his house and informt.~ ·tl~;;~~tlr ~ertain woman was lying , . ., ~ ,.~l . . .~ ~ ~ ·,.,t .. dead near a water Pump)Y~a~;;~hat .he went there and saw the ,\1/,f'''i. I ' went to report the matter to the .Pol~~e at Kibiti Police station. area, and that when he went there, he found the deceased .•,,, " j)t1 :,... :~~/~·;,,. _ lying dead and drew a sketc;h n:i~R{efthe incident, and that the ' . ~ .··,, ..'J. •._,, ---i .. ,,rtt;\°.• ~ ~ > body of the deceased was ~a'.k~:~tcf?i,'.Kibiti Medical Centre from ~ ~ ~. I i _ ~ J ·; ~· ···fF~, . where it was taken for burial, and, that later, it was exhumed for post - mortem ex~i~itj:· ap.d that, upon information '. ~_. . 'l ,.,>,,, e I•·' 1' ''."if; "?._', ~ {;. J'J" 'f, ,I~• that the deceased was \>'r~~t~!.L yt}itth~ accused persons, they ,,'i_. ,~_,·.g.:~:tcJ.W.i :J<;~. 1·_ •• ,;__ .;·- ,. were arrested in connecli;<?tlftk•:-, ,·\· murder of the deceased, ,. ,--!~) r~ ~::_~ ~ · r~!l,t-N·; and that on being interrog~t'iid ·t~ey denied to have killed the deceased. ; 'l ·,'. . ,r ,.f~ . , August, 2005, he saw ori~:c S~\1r-!I1/'Matangwa threatening the '_-,.ii;; ·,;t'*·' deceased with an empty :~&t'\:1€ ' lt-f .. ' '6f soda when she went to ' the :~ .. ·' :..(,'):, 1, C I \~ (:, "•iJ1:~~~ place from where the were drinking 'Wanzuki' and started tal~ing with .one of them something that _;. :,.~ .··\i~t.- t; :' made him angry. After th~~?;'.~f~; 1~aid, he left the place together . ,J-: ~ ~:: " ~ ; with his friend Sultan Saidi anp,, w~nJ away. t 1ti~;t~4;; P.W. 4 Mohamed R~;~jhani simply told the Court that rf~\ , ) <} during the night while he was in bed at his house, he heard noise coming from the neighborhpod, and went there to see - ~ .:_. • ·: .• :., .'1 .:_,' . , /·;;~. -~ti{:i<: what was happening, and J~at•c\vhen he reached there, he ;_ \t4h)'5¥i 0 found a fight between tq.e accuse.cl persons and one Salum ,. :.. \tr' ' .'"':' Matangwa and that othe1:{ftr~9ps who were there including .''il"\t <;' ·t ,·, . the deceased appealed to them( t91~ffi.P fighting but in vain. He . '. ·;· .· r. · ii11.i, lt- . said that, thereafter, he _ :lef.t;; ~tj~i~t~ye and went back to sleep 1 , ~-... -Ji(i(!~-) ~--:t./\ifll? and that he does not kn0;w,f,yij~1one who killed the deceased. P,W.5 Aziza Rajabu told /11-~Lfµurt that on 29 th August, ,;,_:· ..-.,t•' . ·•' . }\ },.'t <' . 2005 during the night, she was :~Uhome and that she heard .;c\:1 i-•.•_i:,;(1A:, . noise and went to the pl~ce J"tqef~/}1.oise was coming from in ., .. .., it can be seen that there is nothing to prove the prosecution's allegation that the decei~~da wj~. beaten by the accused ': . • ,?{iF persons or that her death wii(~ift~~§ed by them in any way. At ' ; ) I} ·. ·' :· ;(' , most, there is evidence ~o·_, ~P°iWt1 . 1:1 ~11~f the accused persons beat 'l" r ,... · -.~~,;- iff~,J ~•~~{t~s-\ · one Salum Matangwa wlii'ftJt·~viaence is sound to prove that . -\_,. .:~~l;(':r they committed the offe11:.~1e _1p{.;fi~~iµ\t C / S 240 of the Penal ',·, :~\ jjjfi:: ,i/J::/~'. Code and not murder Cl_S f:9Jtop1:tnf Penal Code. 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