Parties to the 500m/- criminal trial of former Moshi Rural Member of Parliament Thomas Ngawaiya have resolved to settle the matter out of court.
This was revealed yesterday at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam when the case came for mention. Advocate Thomas Milinga, for Ngawaiya, told Principal Resident Magistrate Respicious Mwijage that they were negotiating with the prosecution with a view of settling the matter out of court “We pray for adjournment of the case, your honour, to enable us conclude the negotiations,” the defence counsel asked.
The prosecution, led by State Attorney Grace Komba, raised no objection. The magistrate, for that matter, gave the parties a month within which to conclude the negotiations in question and ordered them to report back to the court on June 16. In the case, Ngawaiya, currently a businessman is charged of engaging an unregistered firm to undertake construction works into a hotel building valued at 500m/-.
The ex-MP under Tanzania Labour Party ticket, who later defected to the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, is alleged to have committed the offence contrary to the Contractors Registration Act.
It is alleged that Ngawaiya committed the offence on March 24, last year, at Plot Number 32 along Dosi and Wazani Street at Magomeni Mapipa in Kinondoni District in Dar es Salaam. He allegedly engaged unregistered persons to undertake the construction works at the hotel valued at 500m/-.
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