Tito Magoti

Freedom Fighter. Tundu Lissu’s Protégé.

[Tito Magoti @TitoMagoti]

Matriculated into the @UniofOxford to read for a Doctor of Philosophy in Law.🙏🏽

[Mange Kimambi 🇹🇿🇺🇸 @mangekimambi]

FUCK YOU SAMIA SULUHU………… ILAANIWE SIKU ULIOZALIWA!!!!!

[Tito Magoti @TitoMagoti]

@Geoffrey87Lea My guy!!🫡🫡

[Joshua Malidzo Nyawa @joshuamalidzo]

Stop dismissing our genuine concerns. The Judiciary must also recognize abductions as a menace and issue stronger remedies, including declaring a state of unconstitutional affairs (Colombia Con Court). Make the Rule of Law matter & stop giving the IG and his cabal a free pass!

[Tito Magoti @TitoMagoti]

@roadman__n @japhet_kapinga Nimelikumbuka lile li faza huwa unalipost linajipepea na kafeni🤣🤣

[Donald Deya @donalddeya]

On Thursday 30th April 2026, as Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker, I addressed the Opening Ceremony of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) at the Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC) in Arusha, Tanzania. I told the meeting, Tanzanians, East Africans, Africans and the world at large that it was no longer just Hon. Tundu Antipas Mughwai Lissu, Advocate that was on trial; that it was the entire Tanzanian Judiciary and the overall system of administration of justice in Tanzania that was on trial before the people of Africa and the international community. It had become a question of whether justice would be done, and would manifestly be seen to be done. Our elder brother, Alute Simon Mughwai Lissu (MHSRIP) was present. He had come to the AGM, frail and fraught, with his dialysis gadget on his neck, to face the erstwhile Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker, the Chief Justice of Tanzania, George Mcheche Masaju, to ask him whether he thought that what was happening was just. The Chief Justice bailed out the night before. I replaced him at the last minute.

Well, earlier today, the Tanzanian Judiciary has returned a verdict on itself, for the entire world to see. Has justice been done? Has justice been manifestly seen to be done? The High Court of Tanzania has acquitted Tundu of treason, but substituted a charge of Incitement, for which they immediately convicted him and purported to conduct an impromptu Mitigation Hearing and immediately sentenced him to a clearly pre-meditated four years imprisonment. Was there adequate notice? Was he provided with adequate time and facilities for his defence (of a NEW Charge, even if emanating from a Charge or Charges that should not have been there in the first place)?

In due course, we will dissect the full Judgment, once the Court publishes it. It is not our fault that a Court can make such a monumental decision on a matter of intense national and Pan-African and international concern, and not immediately provide the full, written, reasoned and signed Judgment. It is not our fault!

From the lay transcripts and media reports that we have received, the Court did not make a pronouncement on whether this Sentence will take into consideration the 577 days that Tundu has been incarcerated, in inhumane conditions. So we do not know what to do about that.

This is a trial that should never have been in the first place. Everything about it was unlawful and unjust, from the place and manner of arrest; the manner of conveyance from the place of arrest to the detention and arraignment in Dar es Salaam; the place and manner of detention during the long trial process, including being held in solitary confinement, denial of confidential access to his family, associates and lawyers; the management of the Court premises and facilities during the long trial process, including police attacks on citizens within and outside the court; the ejection of several Trial Observers from the region and the severe torture of two of them: my good friends Agatha Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi; the removal of live broadcasts of the proceedings and the attendant unfortunate and unlawful remarks on that by none other than the Chief Justice of Tanzania, George Mcheche Masaju; the deplorable conduct of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions/ National Prosecutions Service (ODPP/ NPS) throughout the trial; the penultimate, inevitable acquittal and substitution of charges and/ or replacement with a Cognate Offence. All of it!

Also, we are Africans. We are African. And Africa is in us. Tundu’s eldest brother, Alute Simon Mughwai Lissu (MHSRIP) has died because of this stress. We know it! Let us not pretend. We killed him! This killed him!

Alute Simon Lissu Mughwai, Advocate was my boss and mentor towards the end of my eight-year tenure at the helm of the East Africa Law Society (EALS). A very gentle, deep and reflective soul. And a very kind man. I used to enjoy weekend lunches with him, at his home in Fire Estate, Arusha, especially before Cancer ripped his lovely wife away from him, and us. I also know that he has raised his children well, both with and after her. And been a doting mentor to lots of younger advocates.

As I have said above, Alute and I were last together at the TLS AGM this past April in Arusha. Rest In Peace (RIP) Alute. We killed you. This case killed you. This Administration killed you. We may try to run away from it. But we are African. And Africa is in us. We know what we did! You have fought the good fight. You have finished your race. You have kept your faith, till the very end of this mortal part of our existence. We will bury you.

And then we will go back to trying our very best to get for your younger brother, for your family, your country, our continent, our world, the justice that you and he and we deserve. Or we all die trying.

[CIVIC SPACE IN AFRICA @civicspaceaf]

The case of @TunduALissu is abuse of legal institutions, criminal charges and procedure not merely to determine culpability, but to isolate an opponent, exhaust his resources, remove him from political participation
@TitoMagoti @tsunga_arnold
@achpr_cadhp

[Hilda Newton @HildaNewton21]

Leo Media zote kubwa huko Duniani mjadala ni Hukumu ya Mhe. Lissu.

Cc. @TitoMagoti

[Tito Magoti @TitoMagoti]

@bonifacejoseph_ 🤣🤣🤣

[Bey @bijou_ms]

May better days come. 🇹🇿

[Dee. @Striyker09]

Kama kuna one of the very few politicians wa Kenya wametumia voices zao kucall against the injustices happening in TZ and UG ni Sifuna since he was in ODM hadi leo kaform chama chake cha Linda Mwananchi jamaa bado anamsupport Lissu na waTZ. He deserves to be the 6th 🫡

[The People’s President @bonifacemwangi]

As President Ruto attends his daughter’s wedding in Tanzania today, his host, President Suluhu, has jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu for four years. He will remain behind bars until 2030. It would be laughable if it were not so tragic that Tundu Lissu was convicted of a fabricated offence.

Tundu Lissu is a freedom fighter who was shot 16 times in 2017 and survived that assassination attempt. After 25 life-saving surgeries in Belgium, and left with one bullet still lodged near his spine, he chose to return home to Tanzania to continue the struggle.

He has now spent 577 days in prison on fabricated treason charges.

In a clear “what can you do about it” attitude, Suluhu has hosted Ruto the same leader who has facilitated the abduction of Tanzanians from Kenya to celebrate the jailing of a political prisoner. The timing is no coincidence. Sentencing Tundu Lissu on the same day William Ruto attends his daughter’s wedding in Tanzania is a deliberate message to all who seek change: the abductors and torturers stand united. They will pop champagne, eat cake, and celebrate Tundu’s sentencing.

To the three cowardly Tanzanian judges who sentenced an innocent man: the wrath of Tanzanians will befall you.

To Suluhu the butcher: Your day of reckoning is coming. Tundu Lissu remains defiant; the ideas and ideals he lives by continue to ignite the fire of change. He is physically in jail, but his defiant spirit will liberate Tanzania very soon. The illegitimate government of Suluhu will fall, and she and her enablers will face their day in court.

That day is coming. Aluta Continua!
#TunduLissu #Tanzania #Chadema

[John Heche @HecheJohn]

Mwaka 1957 wakoloni wazungu walimfungulia Mwalimu Nyerere kesi ya uchochezi.

Kwenye hiyo kesi wakoloni wazungu walimkuta na hatia mwalimu Nyerere. Pamoja na kumkuta na hatia Mwalimu wakoloni hawakumfunga Nyerere gerezani bali walimlipisha faini na akaenda nyumbani.

Miaka zaidi ya 70 baadae, mahakama chini ya majaji kina Ndunguru na Jaji mkuu Masaju.

Yenyewe imejiundia kosa, imejitafutia ushahidi, imemfunga kiongozi wa upinzani nchini tena kwenye kosa lenye faini.

Ccm na serikali ya Samia Suluhu Hassan ni makatili kuliko wakoloni wazungu.

Historia itawaweka mnapostahili.

[Jebra Kambole @Advocate_Jebra]

TAL!
Baada ya kukutwa na hatia aliomba kuongea na mawakili wake, tukamzunguka kila mtu akawa anampa mitigation facts,

akasema kwani hamjui wana hukumu?, tukamjibu tunajua!,

akasema nikifanya mitigation itabadili hukumu yao?, tukajibu hapana!

Akasema let me speak my mind!

[SIR TIVA @Sativa255]

Udongo uliotumika kumuumba huyu mwanadamu🙌🙌🙌

[Jebra Kambole @Advocate_Jebra]

Kama lissu amehukumiwa kwa kuvuruga uchaguzi!!!, Samuya na genge lake walishindaje?

[Alien 👽👽 @Eggle_Vuvu]

Samia utakufa siku sio nyingi

[Bony 📚 @bonifacejoseph_]

“Kesi yako ya kuiba kwa kutumia silaha imefutwa kwa kuwa upande wa mashtaka umeshindwa kuthibitisha mashtaka, ila utahukumiwa kwa kosa dogo la “Uzurulaji”

[Spana & V.A.R Movement @spana_Konki]

“Siku zote watu wenye HATIA ndio huwa WAOGA. Watu wasiokuwa na hatia sio waoga. MIMI sio muoga kwasababu SINA HATIA. Na kwasababu sina hatia NIKO TAYARI kukaa Gerezani AS LONG AS IT TAKES kupigania HAKI. Bob Marley aliimba hivi,(Truth may be an offense, it is never a sin)” - TAL

[Tito Magoti @TitoMagoti]

4-year jail term is an afterthought & fallback position to salvage Samia Suluhu’s bloody regime.

Tundu Lissu will appeal & win decisively.

Heartbreaking that he won’t escort his brother, SC Alute Lissu, to his forever home.

Alhamdulillah for today; for everything!

[Tito Magoti @TitoMagoti]

“Mimi ni raia mwema na mzalendo wa nchi hii. Nimekuwa Mbunge mara mbili. Nimekwenda jeshini. Nimekuwa Rais wa Mawakili. Mimi sio mpiga kelele na wala mchochezi. I am a SOLID PATRIOT.” - Tundu Lissu.