Applicant should have waited for the 5 June 2009* Notice of Motion
to Review the Court of Appeal’s decision in Criminal Appeal Number
230
of 2008 to be heard.
The
Respondent
further states that the
Applicant could have also instituted a Constitutional Petition before
the
High
Court
of Tanzania
vide
the
Basic
Rights
and
Duties
Enforcement Act, 1994, regarding the alleged violation of his rights,
which form the basis of his application before this Court.
54.
The Applicant avers that local remedies were fully exhausted
when the Court of Appeal of Tanzania, the highest court of the land,
finally and in its entirety, dismissed his appeal on 29 May 2009.
55.
The Applicant avers that one need not file an application for
review
so as to exhaust
local
assertion of the Respondent
remedies.
He
also states that the
State that the Applicant should
have
filed a constitutional petition to challenge the delay in the hearing of
the
review
is both
unnecessary.
and
redundant
as
it imposes
a
requirement to utilise a procedure that falls outside the scope of the
rule requiring exhaustion of local remedies.
56.
On the preliminary objection that the Applicant did not exhausi
local remedies, the Court finds that the Applicant went through the
required criminal trial process up to the highest Court in the land and
finally applied for review to the Court of Appeal.
In a case involving
the
Commission,
Respondent
State
before
the
African
the
3 The Notice of Motion for Review in the matter of Criminal Appeal Number 230 of 2008
in the Court of Appeal of Tanzania. It was signed by the Applicant by way of thumbprint
on 5 June 2009 and lodged in the Registry at Dar es Salaam on 10 June 2009.
Me
We,
(Lo