By Lucy PhiriSELF-PROCLAIMED Patriotic Front Commander, Innocent Kalimanshi has been sentenced to twelve months imprisonment with hard labour for drug trafficking.After a magistrate sentenced him to one-year imprisonment with hard labour for trafficking in 2grammes of marijuana, Kalimanshi told journalists that just like Joseph in the Bible, the drug trafficking offences which were slapped on him were an act of betrayal from his inner circle.This is a matter in which Kalimanshi, Andrew Mende, Titus Phiri, Nkandu Mundubi, Melvin Sichinga and Emmanuel Mwape are accused of trafficking in Psychotropic substances of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances Act no. 35 of 2021 of the laws of Zambia.However, Magistrate Stanford Ngobola only convicted Kalimanshi and Mende for drug trafficking.Magistrate Ngobola acquitted Kalimanshi of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and the other four co-accused who were accused of drug trafficking.The court said the four acquitted were found with no case to answer because none of them was found […]
Kalimanshi jailed 12 months
