FORMER Attorney General Musa Mwenye State Counsel has observed that under the previous regime, liquidations were weaponised to deprive corporate citizens of their assets in order to enrich a few individuals. And State Counsel Mwenye says it is his prayer that those who abused private prosecutions to harass citizens and constitutional office holders will be made to account. Last week, the Supreme Court made a landmark judgement in the case of The Post Newspaper where it nullified the liquidation and demanded that the individual who executed the winding up process should be liable as his actions “were of no legal effect whatsoever”. “For the avoidance of doubt, we hold that the actions of the liquidator prior to and post the...

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