Affair Ecobank - Prosecution Presents Third Witness

Ten out of 13 exhibits presented during the last audience were retained.

After two investigators presented by prosecution during the last audience, the hearing of the Ecobank armed robbery continued last Tuesday April 23. The third witness named Mpessa attested to have personally caught one of the accused. He explained that the he lives in one of the creeks called Washington in the Bonaberi neighbourhood. He added that his wife woke him up on the night of March 18, saying that she he had heard the sound of a flying boat behind their house. When he woke up, he went put with a machete to check what was happening. While lying in the grass, he saw three silhouettes sitting in a packed flying boat.

Shortly after, another group of about ten persons came by foot and boarded the flying boat. Then they left, leaving one person. When his wife came out and switched on the veranda lights, it was then he saw that the man was unarmed, and so he came out of his hiding spot. He asked the man to sit on the ground and to present his identity card, of which he obeyed. When asked what he was doing there, he answered that he had been attacked by armed robbers who brought him there. He was later handed to gendarme officers who were on duty that night. Today he is locked up among the accused, while the case is ongoing. The next hearing is scheduled for May 13, upon request that prosecution brings in many more witnesses.