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Mediation in 134.5m/- Tanga Cement case aborts
2007-05-12 09:55:44
By Rosemary Mirondo
The mediation process, which was undertaken at Kisutu Resident Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam to resolve a civil case involving 134.5m/- facing the Tanga Cement Company has aborted.
The matter will now be resolved through normal court procedure when questions of substantive and procedural laws as well as evidence issues will be called in question on May 16, this year, when the hearing of the case begins.
The case whose mediation aborted yesterday before Principal Resident Magistrate Hamisa Kalombola, has been assigned to Resident Magistrate Catherine Revocati.
The failure by the parties to strike a self initiated compromise over the matter came in the wake of a contention by the defendant who maintained that the case lacked merit because the plaintiff instituted it when he had already been terminated from the company.
In the circumstances, the defendant`s contention held the mediation process at ransom, leaving no alternative but to invoke the due process of the law when hearing begins.
Ephrahim Joram was an employee of Tanga Cement until June 2005 when he was terminated. He was employed in June 1985.
Joram contends that he was terminated when he was ill and asks the court to order the defendant to pay him his benefits ranging from salaries, annual leave and severance payments as from 1985 to 2005, which amount to 134,500,000/- in total.
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