Tanzanian Court orders retrial of foreigners, including a Liberian and Guinean jailed for drug trafficking Tanzanian Court orders retrial of foreigners, including a Liberian and Guinean jailed for drug trafficking
Guinean Diaka Brama Kaba, 63, and Liberian Aboubakar Ndjane, 60, were arrested at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in June 2010 shortly after they stepped off a South African Airways plane.
Dar es Salaam. The Court of Appeal has ordered a fresh trial for a Liberian and Guinean serving 22-year jail sentences for trafficking 31 kilogrammes of cocaine worth about Sh1.2 billion over procedural irregularities during their trial. The two were sentenced in 2017… But the highest court in the land said the prosecution’s failure to amend and/or substitute the charge sheet after the discharge of three other people who were jointly charged with them was a fatal irregularity that caused miscarriage of justice.