| dc.description |
The study was carried with the view that although there is an increasing trend to apprehend people involved in murder, gender based violence, corruption practices, economic sabotage, and money laundering, which is the use of money derived from illegal activity by concealing the identity of the individuals who obtained the money and converting it to assets that appear to have come from a legitimate source, whose criminals, accessories, and or their relatives are powerful enough to pervert the course of justice by dissuading, retaliating, preventing, threatening any person lawfully bound to appear and give evidence as a witness from so appearing and give evidence, still Tanzania has no independent statutory body established for the purposes of ensuring safety to the witnesses and or their close relatives, despite, the recent incorporation of the Whistleblowers and Witness Protection Act.
To put it into the context the study was conducted in some parts of Tanga as a yardstick sensibly practical since the law on protection of witnesses which is implemented in the region is the same in other areas within the country. The employed respondents from whom responses of the study came from were Twenty Five (25). Extraction of responses from the foregoing respondents was achieved by employment of interviews and questionnaire survey. On the other hand, analysis of the responses obtained from methods of collecting primary data and that of the secondary data was done by using qualitative method. Appealing to the number of the objectives intended to be achieved. At the end, the study recommended, among others, that, to ratify the important international conventions which serve in protection of witnesses since the domestic legal frameworks many years after coming into force.
Therefore, the study has a total of five chapters, where chapter one comprises of general introduction and background information, chapter two is all about conceptual framework related to the study, the legal framework dwells in chapter three, chapter four contains research findings, and finally chapter five carries summary, conclusions and recommendations of the study. |
|