On July 5 2006,Tanzania’s Minister of Land and Settlements Development, John Magufuli, instituted criminal proceedings at Dodoma Police Station against two editors and one journalist of a privately owned media house, Habari Corporation. The accussed, Mr. John Bwire (chief editor), Mr. Muhingo Rweyemamu (editor), together with Mr. Nephilitius Kyaruzi (journalist), were summoned only on August 24, 2006, to the Kijitonyama Police Station.