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TORROHA MOHAMED TORROHA
V.
REPUBLIC

(1989) JELR 93470 (CA)

Court of Appeal 18 Jan 1989 Kenya
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Suit Number:Criminal Appeal 163 of 1988
Judges:Joseph Raymond Otieno Masime, John Mwangi Gachuhi, James Onyiego Nyarangi
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Torroha Mohamed Torroha v. Republic [1989] eKLR

JUDGMENT

January 18, 1989, the following Judgment of the Court was delivered.

This second appeal is from a judgment of the High Court allowing the appeal of the Republic from the decision of the Chief Magistrate whereby he discharged and set free the appellant Torroha Mohamed Torroha, a National of Tanzania who was the other person concerned in proceedings which were brought under Section 14 of the Extradition (Contiguous and Foreign Countries) Act, cap 76 of the Laws of Kenya (The Act).

The appellant was arrested within Nairobi under provisional warrants and produced in the Chief Magistrate’s Court on November 18, 1988. The provisional warrants were issued under Section 13 of the Act after Chief Inspector Njue, attached to the Interpol Section of the CID Headquarters in Nairobi swore an affidavit in support of the warrants of arrest.

That was followed by authenticated documents from Dar-Es-Salaam in Tanzania. The documents included a warrant of arrest for the appellant, and another with …

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