17th February 2016.
Nkanda confessed before the court that she killed her mother, Ngembe Salum after she forced her to get married to a man with whom she (Nkanda) has no affection.
Nkanda also told the court that her mother would not allow her to sell a cow to get money for treatment from a traditional healer.
State Attorney Seif Ahmed, claimed before Judge Awadh Mohammed that on April 27, 2011 at unknown time in the village, Nkanda killed and hide the body of her mother inside sacks of rice.
He said that after hiding the body, the accused locked the door to the house and disappeared.Three days later neighbours were alerted by an unpleasant smell coming from the house and informed the police.
The prosecutor said when a search was conducted in the house they found the body of the deceased and arrested Nkanda while the medical report indicated that Salum’s death was caused by suffocation.
Before the verdict, the prosecution noted that although the defendant confessed to the crime, they still recommended the harshest of punishment due to the level depravity of the crime.
However, the defence lawyer from Ngongi & Advocates of Dodoma, Godwin Ngongi, requested the court to give his client a lenient punishment on grounds that it was her first offense and she had already been in prison for five years.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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