Dar es Salaam: Msofe's case adjourned again

BY KARAMA KENYUNKO

The Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam has again postponed a murder case facing a prominent businessman in the city, Marijani Abdubakari Msofe, also known as Papaa Msofe, to January 22, this year.

The decision to postpone the case was reached on Wednesday by the court after the prosecution led by Principal State Attorney Tumaini Kweka informed the court that the investigations had not been completed.

Msofe is accused of having killed a fellow businessman, Onesphory Kituli last year in a feud over a house, which the deceased had bought on mortgage after making a down payment of 30m/-.

When first charged, the accused was not allowed to enter any plea because murder cases are normally handled by the High Court, now he has entered a not guilty plea and remains in custody since there is no bail on murder cases.

Meanwhile, a nursing officer of Lugalo Hospital Mandoza Mfinanga (41), claimed to the court that a nursing registration certificate number 1621 dated 28 August, 2004 issued by the Tanzania nurse and midwife council is legally his.

Mfinanga claimed that when testifying for three offence charges including forgery of a certificate of nursing which allegedly belonged to Felister Mpongole (33), before Resident Magistrate Geni Dudu.

He claimed that his certificate was issued by Tanzania nurse and midwives council and that when the council issues a number in a certificate, the number can’t be issued again in any one else’s certificate.

According to the charge sheet it was alleged that the accused committed the offence on unknown date and place in Dar es Salaam.

Prosecution led by State Attorney Leonard Chalo alleged to the court that the accused Mpongole with intent to defraud or deceive forged a nursing registration certificate number 1621 dated 28 august 2004 purporting to show that the said certificate was genuinely issued by the Tanzania nurse and midwife council a fact she knew to be false.

On the second count it was alleged that on August 3, last year at EX Telecom building Samora Avenue in Ilala District the accused uttered a forged nursing registration certificate of the said number dated 28 August 2004 to Andrew Kapaya.

Chalo continue to claim that on the same date and place the accused attempted to procure a nursing license by producing a forged nursing certificate with serial number 1621 of the said date for Andrew Kapaya.

The case was adjourned until October 28, last year.

 
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN (11/01/2013): http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=49994