Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:58:28 +0000 FREELANCE journalist Chanda Chiimba 111 has been convicted and jailed to two years with hard labour and fined K1,000 on two other counts, in default by the Lusaka Magistrates Court. Chiimba III was sent to prison by Ndola Magistrate Obster Musukwa after being found guilty of unlawful publication and printing of two tabloids, News of Our Times and Stand-up Zambia. He was also convicted for the disposal of property suspected to be proceeds of crime. In his mitigation, through his lawyer Charles Lisita, Chimba III asked the court to exercise maximum leniency on him on grounds that he was a first offender who is remorseful for his involvement in the scandal. Chimba in his mitigation asked the court to take into consideration that he was a family man, married with five children two of which were in university and three in primary school and the youngest aged six. He further told the court […]
