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Student jailed for selling mbanje
31 Aug 2012 at 04:43hrs | Views
A FORM four pupil has been selling mbanje to raise tuition fees, but has been jailed for doing that.
Possession and selling mbanje is illegal in Zimbabwe.
Amon Sibanda (21) a student at Mtshali Secondary School in Gokwe, pleaded guilty to possession of 60 grammes of mbanje when he appeared this week before Kwekwe magistrate Taurai Manwere. He was jailed for 20 days.
The court heard that on August 17, police conducted a body search on passengers aboard a Kwekwe-bound bus which was coming from Gokwe and recovered the drug from Sibanda's pockets.
Sibanda told the court he intended to sell the drug to raise school fees for next term.
"I stay with my brother and grandmother who cannot afford to pay my tuition fees, so I devised my own means of making money," he said.
"There is nothing I could do since my mother passed on and my father left for South Africa in 2007 and never came back."
Sibanda, however, admitted in court he was aware the drug was illegal.
Salome Maunganidze prosecuted.
Possession and selling mbanje is illegal in Zimbabwe.
Amon Sibanda (21) a student at Mtshali Secondary School in Gokwe, pleaded guilty to possession of 60 grammes of mbanje when he appeared this week before Kwekwe magistrate Taurai Manwere. He was jailed for 20 days.
The court heard that on August 17, police conducted a body search on passengers aboard a Kwekwe-bound bus which was coming from Gokwe and recovered the drug from Sibanda's pockets.
"I stay with my brother and grandmother who cannot afford to pay my tuition fees, so I devised my own means of making money," he said.
"There is nothing I could do since my mother passed on and my father left for South Africa in 2007 and never came back."
Sibanda, however, admitted in court he was aware the drug was illegal.
Salome Maunganidze prosecuted.
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