SIMON MWEWA APPEALS AGAINST HIS SIX MONTHS JAIL SENTENCE
CONVICTED vlogger Simon Chitambala Mwewa has reportedly applied for bail pending appeal against the six months jail term imposed on him by the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court.
Sources close to the case indicate to #Mwebantu
that hearing of the bail pending appeal may come up early next week.
Mr Mwewa was two days ago jailed six months for deflating tryes on a Hiace minibus parked near his business premises, Simoson building.
C:Mwebantu
He did not hurt anyone, he did not steal someone’s property, he did not insult anyone. He merely expressed his anger at the indispline of one minibus driver for wrongful parking whose bus should ordinarily have been clumped by LCC.
How such a case deserves a custodial sentence is mind boggling.
He should be commended for trying to bring law and order to our streets.
He should be released immediately and the sentence set aside.
He will succeed. That sentence was too harsh for a first offender with no previous criminal history. The magistrate should have given him suspended sentence but was overzealous because he found a celebrity in the court room.