04 June 2018 :
Four people, two of them women, from Ngara District have been sentenced to death after they were convicted of murder. The convicts were identified as Anneth Furaha (30), Judith Robert (33), Edson Nduhiye (35) and Shaban Yahya alias Lihenge (37), all residents of Ngara District’s Ngundusi village, in Kabanga Ward.
State Attorney Haruna Shomari told High Court Judge Salvatory Bongole during the hearing of the case session held in Biharamulo township that the offence was committed on July 20, 2013.
He told the High Court that on that material date the first accused (Anneth) conspired with second accused (Judith) to hire the killers, third accused (Nduhiye) and fourth accused Lihenge, after paying them a fee of 600,000 tzs.
A prosecution witness, Furaha Salum ((40), the father of the deceased, Shaban Furaha (16) and husband of first accused (Anneth), told the High Court that there was a running misunderstanding between Anneth and the late Shaban Furaha during which Anneth was accusing the young boy of being stubborn and did not respect her.