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JUSTICE: Year when Mwalimu Nyerere had his day in court.
There’re at least three ongoing criminal cases in Tanzania, involving prominent political opposition leaders. The latest is in Dar es Salaam against some Civic United Front members, including National Chairman Ibrahim Lipumba, charged with organizing and/or participating in an unlawful assembly January 27 this year. This was in remembrance of police killings in January 2001 of scores of CUF protestors against the results of the Year-2000 general elections in Zanzibar.
Other cases are in Dar and Moshi. The latter’s against the national chairman of the leading political opposition Party for Democracy & Development (ChaDeMa), Freeman Mbowe, charged with assaulting an election official during the 2010 elections.
The ‘other’ Dar es Salaam case is against the ChaDeMa MP for Kawe, the fiery Ms Halima Mdee, charged with other ‘ChaDeMans’ for unlawful assembly. The occasion was their intention to peacefully trek to State House to sort out issues of public interest face-to-face with the Highest Office-holder in the Land... Whew!
Oh... There’re a few more such ‘police/court cases’ countrywide, all initiated by the government of the day, targeting leaders/activists of the half-dozen-or-so ‘firebrand’ political parties!
The CUF-Lipumba case is by no means the last in the ‘planned’ series pitting opposition leaders against the Govt. of the veteran ruling Party of the Revolution (Chama cha Mapinduzi: CcM).
Mark my words; such court cases are bound to increase as Tanzanians broadmindedly march towards the cherished democratic goals of regular, free and fair elections and a functional, all-embracing/all-inclusive national Constitution!
Such criminal cases aren’t new to this country. Among the earliest was contrived three years before ‘Tanganyika’ attained political independence from British rule December 9, 1961! That was when, on July 9, 1958, Her Britannic Majesty’s Governmet, acting through its colonial administrators in Tanganyika Territory, arraigned one ‘Julius Nyerere’ at a Dar es Salaam Magistrates Court on a ‘criminal libel’ case.
This was based on a Nyerere article in the 29th issue of ‘Sauti ya TANU’ (May 7, 1958), a Tanganyika African National Union publication. Nyerere wrote regarding two colonial District Officers: ‘These folk are instigating people to make false depositions in court to implicate TANU... IF THE POLICE DON’T INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN POLITICS (this writer’s emphasis), and don’t adjudicate between law-abiding citizens and jungle governors who pretend that they are above the law...
The motive for these madmen in provoking people to cause trouble is that we’ll not fail if we follow the law...’ [See ‘Kesi ya Julius Kambarage Nyerere 1958’ by Simon Ngh’waya].
Mwalimu was represented in Court by a formidable panel of lawyers: D.N. Pritt, (Queen’s Counsel); M. M. Rattansey; and K. L. Jhaveri... At the end of it all, Mwalimu ‘lost’ the case and - to avoid a 6-months jail term - he paid a Sh3,000 fine. That was about 150 pounds sterling/US416.6 then; 1.13 pounds/$1.76 today!
The court proceedings in the Dar Criminal Case 2207/1958: ‘Regina v Julius Nyerere’ aren’t much different from the ‘apolitical criminal cases’ of today!
Source:The Citizen.