19890914 TZCA Dar es Salaam5

'I (_. IN THE CoURT OF, APPE/\L OF TA_NZI\NIA AT DAR ES SALAAM ......:.__ .. ( ···~-,,-·• - l (CO::t.\M; ,t_i.AI<hl".Et J.A.t KISANG/\p ,J,.A;,t And OMAR, .f~A.) . ~ · -CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 128 tF 1988 TH~_.DIRECTOR, OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS •••• APPELLANT versus . WILFRED KOMBA •••••• • ~ • • •·" • •· ~ • • •· •• • •. - • RESi>ONDf:N'l' (J1ppeal from the Acquittal of the High ,Court cf Tanzania at Sohg~~ - Mtwara Registry) 'lt4blllll t i1.) d11t111d t:M '11th day rJI wUlYt U., ··in Econ. and Organized Crimes Case No. 3 of 1987 JUDGMENT OF THE coui!r The appellant was·charged with and acquit~d of the offence or·. · r • . ·, being in posseseicn of government tr~phies_ contrary.to·paragr~ph I • . t6(b) of the 1st Schedule of the Economic and Organized Crime Control . . . . Act.N"->. 13 ·of 1984 as read· together :with Sf:l_ctions 67(1),· 2(lt) and . . 78( 1) of the Wi_ldlife Conservation Ac·t, 1974. _The Repub 11.c 1s. n~w 1 . : / . . 0 appealing against hb acquittal. Mr •. Mwanyikat le,u:·ned Pdncipal ~~ i.. '; ~'-Ii>,.: by tho Ecc,nomic Crimes CC.1utt at tha t:im• whH th• tdal. coutt 1ackad ~~-;: ; jurisdiction. The offence of· possession of Government trophies, !!e · --~ -.~: ~:, , submitted, acccrding to the· earli_er~·de.cisicn·s of thi·s Court was not· ·. :'},••_:_'._:_·_._-_,_:,._'. : than within the. ambit of· Economic Crimes offences. ·He asked this . ·i court to declare .the tr.~a·l of thia of;ence by the Economic Crimes __ _-; :· .• ·: .. ''.. J . , • ,,.,, i I . ' ' ·, ;•,"J _co_urt a null'i.ty so that;, as he put lt, he w~ld -~,e fr.ee"_.·t·o·:·ch. ar~e·_-~~--·.·.-'·._.-_·.'.·,.-_·,~-~~_·.'.J_·• off ander · in a prc_per court, . _. :~ --· ./2, :·:. ':] ,· ___ , '.! ····•, ~ . •--~-•>-- . '·,:_~ .:=... , I / I I / Dr. Lamwe1, learned CounsP.l for the re5pondent, said of 1984 is a prccedural enactment whio~ has retrospective it is not a SJJbstantive_.Act which creates offences. We find thet this case is ~imilar to the previous ~~ses of Sh0sh1 al'.ld Njavike (Criminal AJ»peal N0 ~- 130 of '1988 a~d Criminal Appaal No. 32. Of 19~7, respec.tively) in which th1$ Court held that unl~wful possession of Government trophy per se was not an economic 0 brfence triable under Act 13 of 1984. · ' Accordingly w~ quash the proceedi"ngs. And as the Jurported I f tri~l was o nullity, we hereby set it aside. We make no'order for / retrial. We le~ve it tu the di•cretion of the Director of Public. I. • - I •, sirouaut;1.on ■• OM1~D at bJil\ IDS M/lf..MM thh 14th da)' uf l•~ti•ll'l~llt ♦ UH11 . i L. M. MAKAME I, ' JUSTICE OF APPEAL .C ,. "• R-. H. KISANGA ! JUSTICE OF APPEAL.· · · JUSTICE OF APP·EAL. ~/t J •· H. MSOFFE ) I j SENIC,R DEPU1'Y SECRETARY i' ·, 1 • ' ! --~ •. ~~; I. j. l' ~ ·- ,,. . · .... ~ - - ~..:..· .. _ _ _ _ , ....c-~~ ~j