A 34 year old human resource officer at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife has sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labour for assault b y the Livingstone.
CHALI MULENGA, Livingstone
A 34 year old human resource officer at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife has sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labour for assault b y the Livingstone.
This is in a case in which Reuben Chikumba 34, a human resource officer at The Department of National Parks and Wildlife formerly Zambia wildlife
Authority (ZAWA), assaulted his workmate, Nosiku Linenga 37, a public prosecutor.
Facts before the magistrate Benjamin Mwelwa are that on September 4, last year, Chikumba of Nottie-broad area assaulted Linenga by squeezing and pulling his private parts during a dispute and thereafter, allegedly facilitated his dismissal.
In his mitigation through AMC legal practitioners Phillip Mukuka said his client was remorseful for the incident and regrets that it happened.
“My client is not married but he looks after dependents as well as his old parents, if the court gives him as custodial sentence it will be sending theses people to an early grave,” he said.
Mr Mukuka said he was asking for maximum leniency from the court.
“This court has got a lot of discretion; it is fine or even give a suspended sentence to a convict. My client through this convict has lost employment and if he is given custodial sentence, he would be given double punishment as being a first offender he deserves leniency,” he said.
In sentencing magistrate Mwelwa said the offence which the convict had committed was avoidable if ZAWA in Livingstone had a management.
He said people must know that the only way to challenge the decision by his court was to appeal to the high and not by any other means.
“I have heard what your counsel has said in your mitigation that giving you a custodial sentence would be giving you double punishment,” he said.
“I will lenient on you I will send you to prison for 12 months which will be suspended for 24 months, that is you should not commit a similar offence in the period of the suspension,” he said.
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A 34 year old human resource officer at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife has sentenced to one year imprisonment with hard labour for assault b y the Livingstone.
This is in a case in which Reuben Chikumba 34, a human resource officer at The Department of National Parks and Wildlife formerly Zambia wildlife
Authority (ZAWA), assaulted his workmate, Nosiku Linenga 37, a public prosecutor.
Facts before the magistrate Benjamin Mwelwa are that on September 4, last year, Chikumba of Nottie-broad area assaulted Linenga by squeezing and pulling his private parts during a dispute and thereafter, allegedly facilitated his dismissal.
In his mitigation through AMC legal practitioners Phillip Mukuka said his client was remorseful for the incident and regrets that it happened.
“My client is not married but he looks after dependents as well as his old parents, if the court gives him as custodial sentence it will be sending theses people to an early grave,” he said.
Mr Mukuka said he was asking for maximum leniency from the court.
“This court has got a lot of discretion; it is fine or even give a suspended sentence to a convict. My client through this convict has lost employment and if he is given custodial sentence, he would be given double punishment as being a first offender he deserves leniency,” he said.
In sentencing magistrate Mwelwa said the offence which the convict had committed was avoidable if ZAWA in Livingstone had a management.
He said people must know that the only way to challenge the decision by his court was to appeal to the high and not by any other means.
“I have heard what your counsel has said in your mitigation that giving you a custodial sentence would be giving you double punishment,” he said.
“I will lenient on you I will send you to prison for 12 months which will be suspended for 24 months, that is you should not commit a similar offence in the period of the suspension,” he said.
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