Friday’s adjournment ensures that Lissu will remain in remand prison throughout Tanzania’s election on October 29, a fact he explicitly framed as the central objective of the state’s legal strategy.
He was arrested at the High Court in Dar, where he had gone to observe the treason trial against CHADEMA leader Tundu Lissu.
If the court rejects the forensic report on Thursday, the state will be left with no physical evidence and no expert testimony to support the core of its treason case, potentially leading to its collapse.
Vision 2050 will fail and be remembered as empty promises if its implementation relies too much on markets, fails to address power imbalances and distrust, and lets climate finance disappear before helping people on the ground.
If the court upholds any one of Lissu’s objections, the prosecution could be left with a case that is, in the words of the accused, “like a cart before a horse,” going nowhere.
The day’s proceedings saw the dramatic exit of Inspector Kaaya and the entrance of a new witness who began detailing a highly technical process for analysing the video evidence at the heart of the case.
Tundu Lissu turned his cross-examination of a police witness from a legal procedure into a political defence, framing his charged speech as a legitimate part of a decades-long fight for constitutional change in Tanzania.
Officials of Tanzania’s main opposition party, CHADEMA, report that those taken include ward chairpersons, constituency leaders, with families describing scenes of forced entry and violence.
Building on the previous day’s tactics, Lissu continued to highlight contradictions between ASP Bagyemu’s courtroom testimony and his initial sworn statements.
Katika taarifa iliyotolewa leo Jumanne, Oktoba 7, 2025, imeeleza kuwa Polisi inamtaka Augustino Polepole aweze kutoa maelezo yake na uthibitisho wa shutuma alizotoa kwamba kuna afisa wa Jeshi la Polisi amehusika katika kumteka ndugu yake.
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