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Preface
Grappling With the Epitome of Corruption: The Case for Circumstantial Evidence in Tanzania. The choice for the topic of my book is a result or culmination of my experiences in the field of anticorruption, where I work and continue to witness in a bulk of corruption cases a lack of recognition of ‘circumstantial evidence’ during investigation and, subsequently, submission of evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and, eventually, to courts of law.
In this book, I make a strong case for the utility of circumstantial evidence because it is an area that has not been given the prominence it deserves. This is so, for the traditional common law had seen and continues to see the reliability of evidence through the prisms of the ‘direct evidence paradigm’.
Had it been given the prominence it deserves, we could see more corruption cases in courts of law, and the courts would expound and articulate the efficacy of circumstantial evidence in the dispensation of corruption cases.