By CHARLES MUSONDAA MAN has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour for stealing 2, 405 Bibles and other related literature altogether valued at K367, 318, property of the Bible Society of Zambia (BSZ) where he worked as a sales assistant.Before Lusaka Chief Resident Magistrate Dominic Makalicha yesterday was 22-year-old William Ngwenya who was sent to jail as the only punishment for the offence he committed.Evidence before court was that in June 2021 BSZ distribution manager Derrick Mwewa discovered that the Bibles on the shelves had run out but the society’s system showed that it had enough stocks.Upon being questioned, Ngwenya told management that he had kept the Bibles for one of the clients in Lusaka’s John Laing compound as the BSZ was an agent of the Bible Society Resources based in the United Kingdom.After he was asked to put the Bibles back on the shelves, Ngwenya confessed to have sold them on […]
Sales assistant jailed for stealing Bibles
