Valentine Mlowola is a senior official with the

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n government. Mlowola received some of his police training overseas, in

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, the

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and the

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. He studied at the FBI academy in Quantico, and the

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. He was a Senior Superintendent with the Tanzanian Police. His interrogation of Hussein Abebe triggered discussion. US prosecutors had wanted to use Abebe's testimony to help prove their case against

Ahmed Ghailani Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani ( ar, أحمد خلفان الغيلاني, ''Aḥmad Khalifān al-Ghaīlānī'') is a Tanzanian conspirator of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization convicted for his role in the bombing of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. ...

, and Mlowola's interrogation included what

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Lewis Kaplan ruled were implied threats of continued detention if Abebe did not agree to testimony that would help convict Ghailani. In 2006 Mlowola was made a Police Commissioner. In December 2015

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appointed Mlowola the Director General of the

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(PCCB). He held that post until 2019.

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