TANZANIA: Suspect Rejects Judge in Isles Case
Makame was in court for the case proceedings. However, through his defence lawyer, he said that he had no confidence in the judge. He said he feared he would not get fair trial. “The defence has no convincing reasons for opposing my presence in the case.
However, I have to quit and return the files to the Chief Justice to appoint another judge,” Mkusa said in response to earlier doubts on him raised by the defence counsel, Mr Abdallah Juma. Omar Mussa Makame was arrested a month later after the killing of the priest.
According to the Police Commissioner in Zanzibar, Mr Mussa Ali, the suspect was identified through photographs and eyewitnesses. The motive behind the killing of the priest is still unknown. The case comes up for another mention on August 1, this year.
