Dar es Saalam, Aug. 23 -- COMMOTION erupted inside a court room at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday involving the prosecution and defence as an Assistant Returning Officer for Kinondoni Parliamentary by-election was testifying during the trial of nine senior officials of Chadema.

It all started when the prosecution, led by Principal State Attorneys Faraja Nchimbi and Zainabu Mango, Senior State Attorneys Wankyo Simon and Jacqueline Nyantori, called Ms Victoria Charles to the witness box to give her testimony in the sedition trial.

As the witness was explaining how political parties are required to conduct themselves during election campaigns before Principal Resident Magistrate Thomas Simba, two of the def...