Tanzania: Man Loses 350m/ - in DNA Sample Test Case

THE High Court has rejected the suit lodged by a Dar es Salaam resident, Godfrey Samson, demanding 350m/- as compensatory damages from the Ministry of Health for allegedly being negligent while testing DNA samples sought to establish paternity of a child.

According to the plaint of the suit, such claimed negligence was alleged to have been committed by the ministry's employees of the Chief Chemist. Judge Dr Juliana Masabo ruled in favour of Principal Secretary of the Ministry and the Attorney General, the defendants, that the suit was incompetent.

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