DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 21 -- SURETIES for former Singida East legislator Tundu Lissu have thrown the ball to Chadema national chairman Freeman Mbowe to ensure the embattled politician comes back from Belgium to attend his sedition trial.
Ibrahim Ahmed and Robert Katula told Principal Resident Magistrate Thomas Simba at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam on Monday that they have tried their best to contact Mr Lissu so that he could come back, but their efforts have apparently ended in vain.
"At once, when we reached him, Lissu said he would communicate with the lawyer of the party. A total silence followed thereafter," Mr Katula told the court.
"We have decided to take another initiative by writing to Mr Mbowe, because h...