THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has dropped the trial against a taxi driver, Mousa Twaleb, who was charged alongside five foreigners, for taking hostage a billionaire and industrialist, Mohamed Dewji, alias MO.
At the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam, yesterday, State Attorney Ester Martin told Principal Resident Magistrate Huruma Shaidi that the DPP has decided to withdraw the case after entering a nolle prosequi certificate in favour of the driver, stating that he would no longer prosecute him on the criminal charges he was facing.
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