Try me or drop charges, Chin’ono dares State

JOURNALIST and filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono yesterday dared the State to try him, or drop the charges of incitement to commit public violence.

Chin’ono told magistrate Stanford Mambanje that the State lied when it submitted that it was waiting for authentication of his tweets from Twitter. He said the Twitter handle linked to him was his, and admitted to have posted the tweets that caused his arrest.

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