This matter is concerning the administration of estate of the late Chief Makongoro who died intestate. The deceased’s estate was administered informally from 1958 until 2014. In 2014, problems, chaos, complaints, and mismanagement regarding the administration of the deceased’s estate heightened after two members of the royal family, Megamba Makongoro and Adam Makongoro cannily obtained letters of administration of the deceased estate from the primary court. One of the deceased’s children, Mwasumu Makongoro, objected the grant of administration of estate on two grounds namely, one, that the family member of the deceased did not meet and nominate Megamba Makongoro and Adam Makongoro to petition for letters of administration of the chief’s estate and two, that the deceased died intestate thus, he did not appoint executors. The primary court skipped to entertain the objection and appointed Megamba Makongoro and Adam Makongoro to administer the chief’s estate.
Determined, Mwasumu Makongoro unsuccessfully appealed to the District court. Undaunted, Mwasumu Makongoro appealed to the High Court. The High Court set aside the appointment of Megamba Makongoro and Adam Makongoro and quashed the proceedings and judgment of the district court. It ordered the primary court to consider the objection Mwasumu Makongoro filed before it. The primary court granted administration of estate to Megamba Makongoro, Adam Makongoro and Mwasumu Makongoro. After, they took the sterling wheel to administer the estate, they mismanaged the estate.
Displeased family members, apart from taking legal action seeking the administrators’ appointment to be revoked, took administrative steps. They complained to different offices including the High Court of Musoma, hence, this revision.