Zombe ruling out today

THE outcome of the case involving Abdallah Zombe and eight other police officers , will be known on Tuesday when the Court of Appeal and the High Court, respectively, would deliver their rulings.

Justices Edward Rutakangwa, Mbarouk Mbarouk and Bathuel Mmila of the Appeal Court would rule on whether the appeal by the challenging acquittal of Zombe and his colleagues on murder charges should be rejected.

Zombe and the ex-police officers were charged with four counts of killing of three mineral businessmen -- Sabinus Chigumbi and his relatives Ephrahim Chigumbi and Mathias Lunkombe from Mahenge in Morogoro Region and Juma Ndugu, ex-taxi driver at Manzese in Dar es Salaam.

The four people were cruelly killed one by one by the police using a gun on January 14, 2006, at Pande Forest in Kinondoni District in the city.