By Staff Reporter
Chipinge: Two villagers from Chimanimani were recently jailed 12 months each for illegally growing 1 300 plants of cannibas at their homestead.
Munyaradzi Tirimboyi (36) and Noleen Mapunzira (24) of Gadyadza village, under Chief Muusha, Chimanimani were arrested after police received a tip-off that the two were in the business of cultivating dagga in their maize field.
They appeared before magistrate Elizabeth Hanzi facing charges of unlawful cultivation of dagga.
Hanzi slapped the pair with a 12 months’ jail term each.
They were however lucky after the magistrate gave them an alternative to pay a fine of ZWL$30 000 each.
Prosecutor Thulani Zondwayo told the court that during the period extending from January 2020, Tirimboyi and Mapunzira hatched a plan and unlawfully cultivated 1 300 plants of dagga in their maize field.