Man in court allegedly for killing Ghanaian businessman.
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ES SALAAM resident, Salim Mohamed Marwa, alias Komba, who disappeared while in
hands of prisons officers at Temeke Regional Hospital, having been linked with
murder of Ghanaian businessman, has been arrested and was arraigned before the
High Court yesterday.
Senior
State Attorney Neema Haule told Judge Ama Munisi that Marwa, who is charged
with murdering the Ghanaian, Joseph Oppong, alongside another accused person,
Peter Charles Mayala, was apprehended by the law enforcers recently having
remained at large since January last year.
The
trial attorney disclosed that at the time the accused persons went into hiding,
the trial of his case was in progress and the prosecution had already called
six witnesses. Later on, she said, the court was forced to proceed with the
trial in his absence where three more witnesses were heard.
In
the yesterday’s proceedings, the trial judge asked Marwa on how he was going to
proceed with the trial following the disqualification of his advocate he had
previously engaged. The accused person requested the court to grant him more time
to consult his advocate on the matter.
The
judge granted the request and adjourned the trial to August 3, where the
accused person would be required to report back on whether his advocate would
be willing to be reengaged.
She
however, pointed out that if such advocate would turn down the offer, the
government would have to hire another advocate for the accused person though
the trial was in final stages of presentation of final submissions and opinions
of court assessors.
Facts
of the case show that on September 2, 2010 in the afternoon, Marwa met the
deceased at Morocco area in Kinondoni District, where the deceased intimated to
him that he was looking for his long lost relative residing at Bagamoyo, who
would help him find a client to buy his five motor vehicles.
Marwa
became interested due to the fact that he knew that the person who was
identified as Alhasan Baba, alias Isaka because he was also residing at
Bagamoyo. The two, thereafter, exchanged their mobile phone numbers and kept in
touch.
On
September 9, 2010, the deceased arrived at Bagamoyo after being called by Marwa
who had told him that he has a client who was interested to buy the vehicles,
thus the deceased was required to go there with original documents.
It
is stated that after meeting in Bagamoyo, the two went to the house of Marwa’s
mother to eat and later went to Bomani Hotel to have some beers. Marwa is
alleged to have pretended that they were at the hotel to wait for a client, but
in fact he and another person had planned to drug the deceased, steal the
original documents relating to the imported vehicles and later kill him.
While
having the beers at the hotel, Marwa alleged to have drugged the deceased and
left the place while the latter was already unconscious heading to his house
where they met Matala and started assaulting him with bush knives until he died
due to loss of blood.
On
September 27, 2010, Marwa and one Nurdin who later went at large were arrested
while trying to sell the deceased’s vehicles. Upon interrogations, the two
allegedly admitted to have committed the offence jointly with Mayala and later
led the police to where they had buried the deceased body.
Thereafter,
the trial took off, but Marwa became sick after the prosecution had called six
witnesses. He was taken to Temeke regional hospital where he was admitted
before disappearing under mysterious circumstances, while in hands of prisons
officers.
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