Arusha. A long-running legal battle by Pantaleo Awe to reclaim three-quarters of an acre of land in the Mrara area, Babati District in Manyara Region has ended in defeat after the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal, ruling that it was filed outside the statutory time limit.
The court found that Mr Awe waited more than 12 years beyond the legal limitation period after being notified in 1998 that the land had been allocated to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT), Central Diocese.
The ruling was delivered on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, by a three-judge bench of the Court of Appeal comprising Justices Gabriel Ndika, Omar Othman Makungu and Mustafa Ismail.
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