The transformation of the Beitbridge Border Post at a cost of US$300 million has started bearing fruits as it has drastically reduced the turnaround time for ca.
Convicted former minister of Home Affairs who was also vice president for Democratic Progressive Party (Centre), Uladi Mussa and former Regional Immigration Officer for the Central Region, David Kwanjana, have applied for bail pending appeal hearing.
Lawyer for the two, Paul Maulidi, wants his clients to be released, arguing it would be injustice for them to be in prison for years, in case the Supreme Court of Appeal rules in favour of the two.
Justice Chifundo Kachale last year sentenced the two to five years imprisonment for abuse of public office and negligence of official duties.
Mussa was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in March 2017 on allegations that in 2013 while serving as minister of Home Affairs, he and other officials from the Immigration Department fraudulently issued citizenships and passports to Burundians and Rwandese, among other foreign nationals.
Court jails hosts to 83 illegal migrants
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Court jails hosts to 83 illegal migrants
A COURT here has sentenced two Tanzanians to 23 years in prison after finding them guilty of hosting and facilitating movement of 83 undocumented foreigners.
Reading the sentence here yesterday, Resident Magistrate Mwanakombo Mmanya sent Julius Shija, a resident of Bagamoyo to 20 years in prison after the prosecution proved that he was found hosting 16 of the migrants at his house last month.
His alleged accomplice, Eliah Lekule, a resident of Arusha, was sentenced to three years in jail after he was found guilty of facilitating the movement of some migrants at Bagamoyo.