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The newspaper published a lead story on page one titled, Waziri achangisha wapiga kura na kujenga ghorofa, translated as, "Minister solicits money from his voters to build a flat".
The court has the newspaper and Bagenda to pay Masilingi the some of Tshs 15 million (about US$9 000) as damages for publishing malicious and defamatory statements against him.
The court instructed RAI newspaper to pay Tshs 10 million and Bagenda is supposed to pay Tshs 5 million. In addition, the newspaper is required to publish an apology on the first and second pages of the same newspaper in words that Masilingi will be comfortable with before they are published.
It was ordered by the court that the damages be paid within 14 days after the ruling in addition to publishing the apology.