19881111 TZHC Dar es Salaam

I, IN TID: TIIGH COU:(T OF T.'J.JZ.::JITA AT D.."..;.l. :JS S."i.LL.lJ'.i 11.PP:JLL.i..•T.:J J1J1!3DICTION EIGTI COURT CRillilHTii.1 .':.?P:~.'....L NOo 112 OF 1988 C/F 113/88 & 119/88 o::narmi.L CJ.:rnr:m~L c:$~; !ifO. 51 OF 1988 OF Tlt.J DISTJICT COU lT OF i\101000?..0 DISTlHCT .!i.T r-T°010GORO LAUL".:;NT KJTIME o o o o o o c o o o o o o e o o o o o o o o o o c, o o 1' b e o o o o c o o O o O o o e, o .t~P:JIJ.u~ · ( Original .::..ccuscd) versus TEE UNI1~D l"Jl?Dl3LIC ••••••••o••••••••••••~•••••••••••••••••R::I:SPOND:JNT (Origiru::,l Respondent) .JUDGI'.i}.INT "'· The appoll2,nts L'1urcnt Ki tirno v,nd ?..ogors I,Thilinyi wore convicted of u.nlcufuJ_ possession of fh•onrms 9 contrn:ry to sections 13 ( 1) end 31 of tho .".I-ms and ,\.mmuni tion Ordinri.nco, Cc.po 223 of tho Revised La,ws. ::l1.ch wns sontonood to imprisonment for ton yoa:;.'s., Two other IJen with whom they wore jointly charged and tried wore G.lso convicted of the offence nnd similnrly pu.nish0do Bu.t they hn.Yo not lodged e,ny 2,ppeal •. This was a sho1•t Cc'J.se. Thero wore only two wi tnossos who wore called by tho prosecution,, They wore J?w1 Hatil:JLl nnd PW2 Pntricko Th.oy were police officers stationed at Norogoroo Their evidence was simi12.ro According to them, they received information from an informer in tho nicht of 12th e,nd 13th j!-icbrunr-y-, 1988, to tho effect that there wc.s c, group of pooplo walking along tho Iringn Road within tho municipality of !forogoro carrying a gun and rounds of e:.mmunitiono The two policemen together with other policomon rushed to the scene and at about 2 aomo they snw four pooplo walking along tho road nocr a pio.cc called Mazimboo i;.ccording to tho two policemen, two of the four wore carrying a folded mat while the othor two were carrying a bngo With tho help of 2, police dog tho police arrostod the four suspects who turned out to bo the appollc,nts and their co-accused porsonso On eX2.mining the folded □ct they found a Semi--autorna tic riflo bearing serial num1Jor 11 i86899? and on exn,uining tho b2.c; they discovered that it cont2.inod 200 rounds of e,nmuni tion,, They arrosto·d the a,ppellnnts and tho other two G.nd evontu.£'.,lly took then to 001..rrto Tho rifle c,nd anmunition wore tendorod in court., Tho appel12,nts denied tJ.1£. t they wore ip possession of tho rifle 2,nd tho ammunition~ Laurent Ki tirao told tho cou.i:·~ tbn. t he h.2,d juB t onbarked frot1 n bus toc;eth~1· ui th Lums llia,...l{c1,ndila. 1 ono of tho t,w co-accused ,·rho lms not appo.:::.lod~ Ho said ho J.Jnilod frora ~1boya and ho did not know the othor co-accused pc:rsons 00000000/2 -2- and that ho did not· lrnow how they oawo to be arrostcdo In short ho clnir:1-...d '" ~ ' tmt tho charge l/'V.,S a fo.b:ricationo. Rogers Mbilinyi stated thct ho uao a rosia_cnt of Kalonga in tho Iringo, Region and ho came to :Morogoro with tho co-accused F::~olio.n Sanga to search for or:iployuonto Ho c.llogod that ho did not lrnow tho other two co-accusod persons 2.nd denied tJ:i..o, t he was carrying m:imuni tion wl1on ho -;m,s approhondod lJy tho policoo ·Tho lo11rncd r.1agistrnto was satisfied tlw.t tho two prosecution witnosc1os l),ad. toid hir.1 tho truth 2,nd ho disi,1issod the allege, tion of tl:.o c,ppcllc.nts the. t they l:x..d boon frc:.ood-upo Tho ci.ppclJmts 112,vo cho.. llone,·cd tlE t dccision. 9 s,..yine; · tlr,t it was unsc..fo to base c, conviction on such evidence~ I disc.grooo '.I1ho lcc.rnod mg5-strc to l:tcr~J~d tho ovidoncc and sa1-r tho wi tncsscs and tl~°- .c.ccu.sod persons in tho uitnoss-boxo Ile was entitled to believe tho prosecution cc.so and I soc no good reason to upset ).1is f'ind.ing on tho crodilJili ty of those witnossoso Tho conviction will bo c,ffiroodo Tho sontonco noted out was tho mxir.1uri1 for tho offoncoo nut I think it was dosorvingo It is roas01.1c,blo to infer that tho appellants were out to porpotrato a great Dischiof 9 judging fro□ tho 2..mount of aL1□unition they wore carrying., In tho firu::.l rosu.l t tho appeals 1.1ro disr.1issod and tho contonco w1:ich roq_uiro confirm tion by tl1is court io duly confirood., . Deli vorod., ~<yj-v:J~~ :QoPo tll\J?IGllli~ . JUDGE V 11/11/88