It is in the morning when kawaida everyone eats their breakfast. Traditionally in the hoods, breakfast is tea and chapati or mahamri or toast. You are walking by a restaurant when you happen to see your friend, Hamisi, grasping what you are sure is a roll of half-eaten chapatis and munching on what you are also sure is the bitten part of the roll of chapatis. You even wave or shout goodmorning to him as you walk past. All that seeing and greeting das not take more than 5 seconds. And you walk on away to your own business minding your own business hoping that your business will be better today than it was yesterday. A few hours later unapata bad news about your friend Hamisi. He is down with severe stomach problems and... actually he is dead! Days later, postmortem is done on him and it is reported poisoned tea as the cause of his death! Having seen him having his breakfast in that restaurant the material morning you readily volunteer as a witness in a case that has the operators of the restaurant arraigned for serving the poisoned tea that caused the death of your friend. It is a murder case. It quickly dawns on all that your testimony is the most crucial without which the accused might walk away scot-free. On the big day, you are on the stand. You have testified very well, giving every detail as asked. All are happy. Even the prosecution is happy with your performance. The defence is asking useless and pointless questions. You feel you are a star. A star, until a seemingly innocuous question is asked, are you completely sure, without any doubt, that you really saw Hamisi drinking tea, that he was drinking anything at all, when you saw him that morning in the said restaurant?
Umewahi kuwa a witness in a court case?
- Thread starter Da Vinci
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Mongrel
Elder Lister
You can say yes, it's the onus of the defence team to prove otherwise ,
Anglututu
Elder Lister
Kama uko na conscious, you say the truth not what you want.
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