HASHIM TWARIB
JOHN NYANGALA(App)
Vs
THE REPUBLIC(Res)
After the Director of Public Prosecutions had given the necessary
consent and issued the mandatory certificate under, respectively, sections
26 (1) and 12 (3) of the Economic and Organized Crimes Control Act, 1984
(the Act), the two appellants were subsequently jointly tried by the Resident
Magistrates' Court of Oar es Salaam at Kisutu (the trial court) upon charges
preferred on two counts of being in possession of a firearm and being found
in possession of three (3) rounds of ammunitions contrary to section 13 (1)
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of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Cap 223 read together with
paragraph 20 of the first Scheduled to and section 59 of the Act.