Nkhotakota First Grade Magistrate court has sentenced a 25 year-old man to 5 years in jail for stealing his mother’s fertilizer.
Magistrate Fred Juma Chilowetsa meted out the penalty against Hamza Harid of Vinjenje village in the area of Senior Chief Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota.
Court through public prosecutor Cedrick Cosmas of Nkhotakota police station heard that during the night of January 14, the convict broke into the house of his biological mother Ayidale Ayisa.
He then stole two bags of subsidised fertiliser valued at K44,000 and sold them to a certain man at a price of K23,500.
The thief was arrested on January 15 and was charged with the offences of burglary and theft against section 309 and 278 of the penal code respectively.
The court found him guilty of the charges and state prosecutor Cosmas said the convict deserved a stiff penalty due to his misconduct since in November 2016 he was given an 18 month suspended sentence for the offence of theft of bicycle but in a space of two months he committed another offence.
In mitigation, Harid pleaded to court to be lenient when passing the sentence claiming that he is a bread winner to his family and promised to never commit a similar offence.
But magistrate Chilowetsa said that family problems are not a major factor to mitigate his sentence hence he slapped him with a 5 year jail term.
In a related development, the same court has sentenced a 21 year-old man identified as Madalitso Msiska Umande to 3 years in jail for breaking into a house and stealing assorted items with a total value of K69,300.
Umande hails from Kamange village in the area of senior chief Ma lengachanzi in Nkhotakota.
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5yrs for stealing 2bags,,,?
Babylonians injustice……..
Why could you just force him to buy her times two of the quantity that he stole, instead of sending him kundende. ma judge athunsotu ku Malawi kuno alibe timing zilizonse kundende.
5 years for stealing a bag of maize from his mother? I repeat, his mother? My mum wouldn’t allow me to be jailed for her 50kgs bag of fertiliser.
Hahhahahahahah that’s bullshit, Chaponda mukumusiya kuti???
How many bags? Aaaah zauchitsilu. Wina anaba ma million 3 years and anakhululukidwa and wina 50 kg bag of fertilizer which 23000 Malawi kwacha 5 years mukukondela amakhothi.
opusa ndiwokubayo.fertilizer kuwabera mayake mpaka?wa usilu iwe eti?
Kkkkkkkk koma zinazi mmmmm zovuta mpaka zaka 5 kamba ka feteleza
370 million divide by K25000 of 50kg bag of fertilizer = 14700 bags of fertilizer. Oba 14700 bags = 3years IHL, Oba 1bag of fertilizer = 5yrs IHL case yo proscutor kuifufuza mwa fast just months munthu is sentenced yet 14700 bags @ 3years komaso kukambidwa over 4yrs, hope the Judiciary shud just order Prison service imange ma prison units ambiri koz osaukafe we r Prison material. CSOs kuli ziii akanakhala mzungu is interested in the case they could hav raised their voices bt aaaaaa waku Nkhotakota. Judiciary what wrong hav we done for u
370 million divide by K25000 of 50kg bag of fertilizer = 14700 bags of fertilizer. Oba 14700 bags = 3years IHL, Oba 1bag of fertilizer = 5yrs IHL case yo proscutor kuifufuza mwa fast just months munthu is sentenced yet 14700 bags @ 3years komaso kukambidwa over 4yrs, hope the Judiciary shud just order Prison service imange ma prison units ambiri koz osaukafe we r Prison material. CSOs kuli ziii akanakhala mzungu is interested in the case they could hav raised their voices bt aaaaaa waku Nkhotakota. Judiciary what wrong hav we done for u
Nanga chaponda wokuba chimanga?
This is stupid now if her mother failed to havest wea she gonna get de food to feed dis fool? Give him 10yrs
Kkkkkkkk koma adah
I don’t condone wat this man did. But now I know that prisons were built for the poor. chaponda anaponda chimanga choti chikanathiza the whole countr koma is not charged till today. Hell no
masten mwalimba mtima zoona?
The world is always unfair since day one
That stupid guy must rot in jail
Why not arresting chaponda for stealing 100 000 metric tons of maize?
Kupunya woweluzayo