Key Police witness concludes evidence in Chadema’s Tundu Lissu treason trial

Chadema national chairman Tundu Lissu

Dar es Salaam. The third prosecution witness in the treason case against Chadema national chairman Tundu Lissu concluded his testimony at the Dar es Salaam High Court (Magistrate’s Division) on October 23, 2025, stressing that he could not record every detail in the written statement he gave to police because doing so would amount to producing a book or a research report.

The witness, Police Inspector Samuel Eribariki Kaaya (39), a photographic specialist attached to the Photographic Unit of the Commission for Forensic Science Investigations at Police Headquarters, Dar es Salaam, made the remarks as he finished answering a series of questions intended to reconcile his in-court evidence with the written statement he had provided to police, and in response to cross-examination by the accused, Tundu Lissu.