Tanzania: Kabendera's Plea Bargain Delay Now Queried

DEFENCE counsel for a freelance journalist, Erick Kabendera, on Wednesday raised his concern over the delay by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to respond to his client's request to enter into a plea bargain agreement to end the economic trial he is facing.

Mr Jebra Kambole told Principal Resident Magistrate Janeth Mtega at the Kisutu Resident Magistrates' Court in Dar es Salaam that since October when they wrote to the DPP and subsequently informing the court on the matter no progress had been made.

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