TWO WITCHDOCTORS SENTENCED TO 2 YEARS 6 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT FOR PLOTTING TO HARM PRESIDENT HICHILEMA
The Lusaka Magistrate Court has sentenced two witchdoctors, 43-year old Leonard Phiri of Sinda and 42-year old Mozambican National Jasten Mabulesse Candunde to 2 years 6 months jail term for the offenses of possessing charms and practicing witchcraft in an attempted plot to harm President Hakainde Hichilema.
Rendering the sentence this morning, Magistrate Fine Mayambu indicated that the mission to harm President Hichilema in 5 days as planned by the duo would have resulted in economical losses for the country and other negative impact to citizens.
Magistrate Mayambu explained that although the duo are first offenders and entitled to leniency, their intention for the mission was nothing else but to kill, making the custodial sentence with hard labour necessary.
He handed the duo a 24 months sentence in count one and a 6 months sentence in the second count with hard labour effective the day of their arrest in December last year and will run concurrently.
Last Friday, Magistrate Mayambu found that through the evidence presented by the police in a video, Leonard Phiri explained that a tail of chameleon would be used with other concoctions to kill a person and that the duo knew from the beginning the purpose of their journey.
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Tatwasumina mu ng’anga fwebena Lesa lisambi… Elder Pole-Pole revisited.
You have established a Court Precedent.
What is true for Hakainde should also be true for other people.
If some one comes to the police that a neighbor Defecated on the entrance to his house so that he can kill him, or that he sent a Gecko into his house, the police should be compelled to make an arrest just like they have done with Hakainde..and convict .
And if I refuse some one from seeing the remains of my deceased relative on grounds of suspicion of Witch Craft, a Precedent to support me is there in black and white..
and the Hakainde case wasn’t handled by a Traditional Chiefs Court, or a local Court. It has been ruled on by a Magistrate Court!
I was shocked to learn that Munir Zulu was also part of the conspiracy to harm the President.That boy was harboring the wizards in his house while they were teaching them he chameleon to fly like a frog