In the meeting hosted by President Samia Suluhu at the statehouse in Dar es Salaam on March 2, 2022, the religious leaders who attended the function pleaded President to drop Mbowe’s case and the four co-accused.

“The religious leaders used the meeting with President to ask authority responsible for that matter to end the case”, reads the state statement by the Director of Presidential Communications, Zuhura Yunus.

Mbowe and co-accused defence hearings begin on March 4; the four were found to answer the case on February 14.