Regional court criticised for entertaining case without evidence
Tanzania had appealed against an injunction imposed by the bloc’s lower court last year stopping it from constructing a road cutting through its world-famous Serengeti game park. PHOTO | FILE
The Appellate Court of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has criticised the regional bloc’s lower court for entertaining a case against a controversial proposal by the Tanzanian government to build a tarmac road across the Serengeti National Park.
A panel of four judges of the EACJ Appellate Division led by the court’s president, Dr Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, said the EACJ First Instance Division had erred in law by considering a proposal whose implementation was not backed by any evidence.
