Tanzania: Determine Chadema Leaders' Criminality, DPP Asked

A prosecution witness yesterday threw the ball to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), and investigators to determine whether words given by senior leaders with Chadema when winding up campaigns for parliamentary by-elections for Kinondoni Constituency had criminal elements.

The sixth prosecution witness, Police Officer Corporal, Charles, told Principal Resident Magistrate Thomas Simba at the Kisutu Resident Magistrates' Court in Dar es Salaam that some of the words given were seditious and incitement to members of the public.

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