~~~~-------------------------. 8 I have taken time to peruse the plaintiff's plaint at paragraph especially at page 2 which reads: That the plaintiff claims from the defendant principal sum to the tune of Tshs 10,000,000,000/= (Ten Billion) as damages for substantial distress and loss of privacy arising from the defendant's negligence for failure to protect the personal data of the plaintiff. . This paragraph has stated the amount to which the plaintiff is praying this court to award, the plaintiff is seeking the award for substantial distress and loss of privacy to the tune of Tsh. 10,000,000,000/= by reading that paragraph, there is no hesitation that the plaintiff claims for general damages to a tune of though it is not stated in the plaint that the claim is for general damages, I am saying so because, it is a common knowledge that special damages are normally specifically pleaded by stating how the amount claimed have been arrived and need to be proved see the case of Zuberi Augustino Vs Anicet Mugabe (1992) TLR 137). In this case the plaintiff merely stated it to be Tsh. 10,000,000,000/= for substantial distress and privacy loss theplcHntiff had duty to give specific explanation as Page 8 of 12 tollow he. came into.that