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Man (28) in trouble for selling Viagra
04 Aug 2014 at 06:15hrs | Views
A Hwange man, 28, was on Friday sentenced to perform 140 hours of community service for selling illegal sex enhancement tablets in the mining town's night clubs and bars.
Absalom Banda of Madumabiza village, was convicted on his own plea of guilty when he appeared before Hwange provincial magistrate Portia Mhlanga.
Prosecuting, Memory Musaka told the court that on July 21, Hwange police received information from some haulage truck drivers that a man was selling sex enhancement pills in night clubs and bars at night.
Police were tipped off on July 30 at around 2pm that Banda was at Jabulani beerhall selling Blue Diamond, an extremely powerful herbal male sex enhancement capsule, as well as Ibrufen and Paracetamol pills.
Upon arrival, one cop pretended to be a customer and asked for one sachet, which Banda sold to him for $5, leading to his immediate arrest.
Banda was found in possession of 34 packets of Blue Diamonds, 30 packets of Ibrufen and 34 packets of Paracetamols.
The police proceeded to his house and found seven big boxes of different pills.
Banda told the court that he was an unemployed family man and selling the pills was his only way of making ends meet.
He revealed that he started the business in 2013 and ordered the pills from Zambia.
Banda was sentenced to four months in prison wholly suspended on condition that he does 140 hours of community service at Number 2 Clinic in Hwange.
The magistrate cautioned him against committing a similar offence as this was the second time he had been nabbed for illegally selling tablets.
Absalom Banda of Madumabiza village, was convicted on his own plea of guilty when he appeared before Hwange provincial magistrate Portia Mhlanga.
Prosecuting, Memory Musaka told the court that on July 21, Hwange police received information from some haulage truck drivers that a man was selling sex enhancement pills in night clubs and bars at night.
Police were tipped off on July 30 at around 2pm that Banda was at Jabulani beerhall selling Blue Diamond, an extremely powerful herbal male sex enhancement capsule, as well as Ibrufen and Paracetamol pills.
Upon arrival, one cop pretended to be a customer and asked for one sachet, which Banda sold to him for $5, leading to his immediate arrest.
Banda was found in possession of 34 packets of Blue Diamonds, 30 packets of Ibrufen and 34 packets of Paracetamols.
The police proceeded to his house and found seven big boxes of different pills.
Banda told the court that he was an unemployed family man and selling the pills was his only way of making ends meet.
He revealed that he started the business in 2013 and ordered the pills from Zambia.
Banda was sentenced to four months in prison wholly suspended on condition that he does 140 hours of community service at Number 2 Clinic in Hwange.
The magistrate cautioned him against committing a similar offence as this was the second time he had been nabbed for illegally selling tablets.
Source - Southern Eye
