A 27-YEAR-OLD Chimanimani man, who last week left the
gallery in stitches after he told Mutare magistrate Nyasha Kuture that he
cultivated dagga after a friend told him that the drug had been legalised, has
been jailed.
Farai Musiyazviriyo (27), from Maonzani village under Chief
Mutambara, pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to 12 months in
prison.
The magistrate, however, suspended three months on
condition that Musiyazviriyo would not commit the same offence.
“My lord, I was cultivating dagga because there was a
friend who told me that it had been legalised,” Musiyazviriyo told the court
last Saturday, before he was sentenced.
The court heard that on April 5, police in Chimanimani got
a tip-off that Musiyazviriyo was cultivating dagga at his home.
Police raided his bedroom and recovered a packet of
processed dagga and later recovered 19 plants of dagga measuring about a metre
tall. Newsday
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