The National Prosecution Authority (NPA) has dropped charges of externalisation of foreign currency against Magamba Cultural Activist Network Trust. Prosecutor Francesca Mukumbiri of the NPA on Wednesday declined to prosecute after failing to secure witnesses to testify against the Network.
Speaking to the Daily News, Magamba Network director Sam Monro, popularly referred to as Comrade Fatso, said
Yesterday we went to magistrates’ courts as Magamba Network, ready to defend our reputation in the face of trumped up charges of externalisation brought by the State. “We got to court only to find that there was ultimately no case as the State had no witnesses…From the beginning, we were saying that these were trumped up charges.
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