What if accussed refuses to plea? Law school bar/oral question)

If  the witness refuses the  plea section 228(4)  CPA,  1985  will apply. The section  provides that  if  the accused person  refuses to plead, the court  is  required  to enter  a plea of no guilty.  However, before  entering  a  plea of what  guilty  under  section  228(4)  of CPA the Court is required  to  hold an inquiry into accused’s  refusal  to plea or  muteness  in order  to satisfy itself  whether  the  accused stands mute out of  malice  or  through the visitation of  God.  If  it  is found  that  the accused stands mute  out  of malice  or  refuse to plea, the Magistrate will  enter a plea of not guilty’  and proceed to try the charge.  But  where the accused  does not plea to  a charge or  stands  mute by  the visitation of God, say,  if  he is deaf  and dumb  or  is suffering  from  some  decease of the  mind  or  is so deaf that  he cannot  hear when the charge is read  over  to him such an accused person can, if  he is sane, be  tried if  he can  read or write or  if  intelligence can  be conveyed to  him by  signs or  symbols.  See A Magistrates Manual  by Justice  Chipeta, page 32.