The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) , has arrested a 54 years peasant farmer of Fisongo village in chief Nawaitwika ‘s area in Kasama for illegal cultivation of marijuana.
Disclosing this in a statement to ZANIS, Saturday, DEC spokesperson Rosten Chulu said DEC together with Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) arrested the villager and was charged with unlawful cultivation of marijuana
Mr Chulu said another 125kg and two checked polythene bags containing cannabis were seized on a Lusaka bound Germins bus.
Mr Chulu said it was for this reason that DEC has commended the bus service crew’s for their cooperation leading to the arrest of the suspect.
He has since urged other bus operators whose buses are being used as vessels to transport illegal drugs to desist from doing so and emulate Germins Bus service crew in their alertness to fight the drug scourge.
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watagwana man!!
This is total madness everywhere. Global problem….
Imwe, leave the poor man alone puleeez! It’s his only means of feeding his family and sending his children to school. Abena Zamaican, Ras Rated, na bena Bun dem Dread landenipo guys…
#3 he is growing all those things in order to make his children ‘cabbages’ what goes around comes around!
What about the market? There is a ready market for this stuff? Comb the compounds as well and arrest these air pollutors. I pity for the old man, who tipped the DCE? I know they are exrcise the law but maybe the old man did not know, try just to educate him that it is not allowed to grow fwaka wa cingoni.
No jobs at zed so leave him alone otherwise the children will start pppp along church road
Bushe cannabis ndiye vyamba? If the answer is yes, then they should release the old man because mu Zed ni vambili, why this old poor man only. That would mean DEC is not doing its job because even that woman who showed her nudity in the post had smoked chamba.
Aba bashikulu benzo supplier some of the prominent govt officials na ba mwenye mu Lusaka. That is why he even thought of cultivating.
DEC, don’t just go for the dealers, follow up and get the BUYERS. they are the ones that motivate these guys to venture into the ilicit trade. Extend your arrests na ku kachasu traders. Ipayisa anyamata mukomboni. If you look around, they appear as though they are swolen from fighting but its the kachasu swelling up their faces. a sad site indeed especially that most of them are still in their twenties.
Zambia, where to from here?
THERE IS PLENTY IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE BUT WILL ALWAYS TELL YOU THAT ITS MEDICINAL THERE WAS A WOMAN IN UK WHO WAS ADDING DRUGS TO HER CAKES CLAIMING HER CLIENTS LIKED THE TASTE START WITH SOUTHERN PROVINCE FIRST
#4 Cutey, so you’re still around, what do you know about this plant? I sympathise with this man because the big fishes getting rich by trafficking lethal drugs like MX, Crack and Heroin are not being arrested but instead the DEC is going for poor people like him.
It will be ridiculous to send the poor man to prison when big barons like that Chileshe man who was growing cannabis in his green houses in Lusaka was given a light sentence of paying a minimal fee. I wonder how far that case went. Big guys are growing cannabis in DEC backyard gardens in Lusaka and the guys want to pretend they don’t know. DEC go and search all those green houses you will find them. Muyopa bene VJ (Remember he confessed to SITET and sentenced in a Germany court thats why he can never step a foot in Germany) and all the silent big guns behind Movement for Mandrax Dealers.
#10, I know much about this plant from the classrooom. The long effects are debilitating and irreversible. This man is growing this stuff to feed his family…hmmm, but he is killing other people’s children’s future..
Power to de Herb! African people dem use Ganja fi years and no DEC can stop dem! From the people dem demand it, weed farmers supply it, seen?
#12 Cutey, don’t believe everything you learn/learnt in the classroom. Have you never heard that Cannabis prevents and cures Glaucoma (early blindness)? It’s about time you left the classroom and entered the bush.. let me be your bush guide 😉
In zed it easier to nab the peasants and the poor but very technical and difficult to nab the gratest drug dealer VJ and company.Let that peasant go free and nab VJ.
#14 Chale, ine ndepofula umulandu wa dobo, where did you get that from that weed prevents blindness?
..past bloss auf dass du nicht erwischt wird von deutche bullen! Du lesbt ja nicht in Amsterdam
Ibange has been part of our African traditions. Most smokers (kabaela) in Zambia never cause any trouble but are known to be best comedians. Its a pit that Bemba man for growing dobo, we will miss his jokes pa nsaka.
Mind you, most bloggers’ comments on this LT are suspecious, people like # 14 Ba Chale, mwati tababika aka shimbi?
#14 Ha ha ha, kwena wantekunya webo! Do you rub the leaves into your eyes? Awe bawishi, ba ci bayela ku kanwa! For medical use just google “Cannabis and Glaucoma” and see the facts for yourself…
PS. Where did you learn Deutsch? Did you live in Germany once? Keine Sorge, die deutsche Bullen sind nicht “smart” genug um mein Versteck zu finden!
But guys dobo is great! Those who have taken it will agree wit me.
There are people who eat dogs that protect us…tamubekata…..those growing harmless plants that give oxygen…mwabekata…..
its a choice ukulya fwaka chaume, or consulate…..those who take that choice shud be left alone coz they are not influencing everyone to….
Global decisions have not always born the best solutions…….
Its just plants that dont even kill but you have poisonous flowers pa yard that harm your kids so l will come arrest you nga naisa mu December….
#11 listen.
Chileshe was released by Levy Mwanawasa and sits in Lusaka quietly. They even partnered and used GBM to buy 22 Marcopolo buses at a go to use to clean the drug money…….
Ati Levy was fighting corruption…imwe muletekanya and ask us street boys..we know whats cooking in those hidden pots.
After they bought the buses they tried to frustrate Cassius Rams by suspending his licence ati his buses were causing accidents …what roads have you made for Rams and us to drive through well when even now we still have to take 2hrs between Zimba and Livingstone and Rams is thoughtful enough to send us buses……
CORRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUPTTTTTION YEKA YEKA…Chileshe got out long back boss
“Organization’s Executive Director, Rev. Matyola Malawo says President Banda must appoint his cabinet based on one’s capacity to deliver… He says appointing people on appeasement lines will derail national development agenda.”
Source: w w w . muvitv . c o m / news/ Nov2008/ 8thpnews1 . h t m l
“When asked about people attributing apathy to lack of delivery of promises by politicians, Hakainde said that was why Zambia needed change…He also said governments of national unity were destructive to Africa and Zambia did not need that.”
Source: maravi . blogspot . com / 2008/ 10 / hh -condemns -army -commanders -threats . h t m l
#14, Heeeeeheh, that is Bob Marleys version…….
Legalize it, don’t criticize it. 🙂
Weed is much better for you than the home brewed distilled alcohol that passes for ‘beer’.
And, at one time hemp was one of the world’s major crops. Sails, paper, clothes, all kinds of things can be made from hemp. Hemp as a paper substitute saves forests. At one time in US history, people could pay their taxes in hemp.
Hemp could do so many good things for the Zambian economy if it was legal.
Will you fu*kers free the man, he’s not thief. He’s was just trying to provide for his family since the weak govt can not provide jobs.
Probably a Man Utd fan!!!!
Kupix #26 yu are the FU* KER
COMMON SENSE. THE MAN WANTS TO SURVIVE. ALTHOUGH I AM NOT AN ADVOCATE OF ANY FORM OF DRUG (APART FROM MEDICAL) AND DRUG-TAKING.
” COMMON SENSE. THE MAN WANTS TO SURVIVE. ALTHOUGH I AM NOT AN ADVOCATE OF ANY FORM OF DRUG (APART FROM MEDICAL) AND DRUG-TAKING. ”
We live in societies of mood altering chemicals. Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and sugar happen to be the ones that are state sanctioned at this time.
However for most of history (until 1937), cannabis was just another substance. It used to be routinely included in medicines, including children’s medicines. It has not LD-50 (toxicity) at all.
Most drugs go in ladies handbags.. Zambian women have been arrested all over Asia recently… Men should stop using women for illegal activities..
” Men should stop using women for illegal activities.. ”
It is not a men versus women issue. The question is – why is cannabis illegal at all? Anywhere in this world? That is the question.
This is unfair- the herb has done nothing wrong to the people. Except when you smoke it and meditate- you see things for what they are, and them low Folly-ticians know the people will uprise and rebel against injustice they perpetrate. Anyway Jah bless the farmer-Jah’s love is for the poor. Anyway, I and I don’t expect to be justified by the laws of men;sure they’ll find him guilty but Jah shall be his innocence.
@ # 33 Rasta- boi nau pepa ibange iyi kali sana. Tusha ne cushi. That was a very ‘high’ comment! But it has made my day.
Legalize it, like the pa Amsterdam, with low visa fees, go figure how many tourists will be flocking to these parts, just take them on outdoor camping trips and play traditional music and camp fires, they will come, just for the taste of it..we will improve living conditions
Blaze it till dem eyez get red…pity that babylon still wanna draw a bad card on a poor man.Just tax them farmers who cultivate the herb. Show sum little gudness and respect for the farmers.Check out how stuff is done in Hollland,alot of tourist gwan there cos it is just the healing of the nation and tourist will always flock to such places.The man has been maybe sending kids to school but now you not helping but creating issues cos there is surely a family that the man has to care and provide for.
Nine Chale,how the man doing?
Zambians are always too harsh on their fellow zambiaqns than foreigners.There are so many foreign nationals who are let free yet they deal in more classfied drugs than ibange.We need fairness and justice in zambia
What! come ba DEC mulekeni umufyashi wesu.Dobo nizee.I don’t smoke,but I have stayed with a rastafarian,I have not seen anything wrong with these people infact they are very good people.Those you misbehave when they smoke are not Rastafarian/Jahmen.Rastas/jahmen don’t take babylony water(beer)but those who claim to be rastas/jahmen and yet they drink beer are not rasta/jamen they are the ones who even misbehave.Dobo is good for your healthy.Teifyofine Jahmen?
hey leave the jahman alone thats seed man..blam mblam
I’m enjoying the comments on this topic. #33 Rasta, you hit the nail on the head! Big up Ras rated, nice to hear from the man again. Me going good. One love and me hope you have a nice Finnish girl to keep you warm because I hear Helsinki is so cold …brrrr!!!
Anyway, I think it would be good to start “Amnesty Africa” for such cases. There is more injustice by Africans against other Africans that we see among Europeans or Americans against each other.
ba dec atau!let the old man go free,because atleast he cultivated the herb in privacy and not in public,he respected you and he deserves some credit for that.
we done ba DEC u are doing a good job that man is not suppose to live with pipo his place is the bush or chimbokaila,so many children has been wasted becoz of this herb,what kind of a parent is he, pls chainama is full becoz of the same he deserves to go in for good..nikamabala
he is abusing the 50 pin fertilizers instead of using it to grow crops that will benefit the nation alima dobo,
charges:abuse of feteleza and posession of prohibited drugs dobo
The commercial benefits to the Zambian economy are endless. We have seen how the “global financial crisis” has changed the price of copper which, if things remain the same, will affect our economy negatively. Hemp is renewalable and brings benefit to the individual and society at large if used in moderation. DEC should focus on real drugse dealers otherwise very soon they will start arresting traditional medicine pratitioners in the name of fighting drug trafficking.
to #43 you are obviously a victim of the media. if you’re over 10 and belive everything on cnn you’re in too deep. wake up my friend marijuana has not caused anyone tolose their minds. The same ppl who are trying to stop it smoke it. Wake up don’t be so ignorant and belive everything fed to you in the media. I feel sorry for you.
# 28, FLYING NALIKWANDA f*cking loser, say away from me you son of a b*tch.
Wa gwan? Dem cyaan stop ganja. DEC mek we burn dem!
As a young boy growing up in the sixtys, one of my distant relatives smoked ibange before going to do heavy manual labor. He told me it gave him energy to work long hours and not fall asleep. Coming to the western world, I see a lot of people taking anti-sleeping tablets to attain the same benefit one would get from ibange. The important thing is for people to respect plants or drugs in general that indulgence in some of these can yield bad results. These plants have been with us before the coming of the white man and his controlling ideas. We must all understand that experience is the best teacher and that above all, we learn through coordination of the five human senses.
our goal must be that we educate the young and old on how to respect plants that would have adverse effects on their health and life in general. Arresting people for the sake of it is not good. If indeed ibange is a medicinal substance, we should have it legally farmed and sold to a pharmceutical company. For those that want to smoke ibange, they must see a doctor to be evaluated and given a permit to purchase ibange on as needed basis. Also it would be nice to obtain recommendation on oath from family members and close friends that this individual is stable after smoking ibange. I think this must be our way forward.
This is a little off topic, but I find it interesting how Non-Jamaican Rastafarians try really hard to copy and use the ‘accent’ and verbiage of Jamaica, so much that its almost like their ‘Rastafarianism’ is synonymous to speaking that way. If you go to the Caribbean, almost everyone, Rastafarian or not – speaks with a noticeable ‘Caribbean accent’ if I may use the correct term, since it is exclusive to the region. Its funny how someone born and bred in Mpulungu for example, can suddenly develop a Caribbean accent just because they are now a Rastafarian; even though they have never traveled to, or even lived in the Caribbean. Similarly, a Catholic in Mongu is not any less Catholic than his
counterparts in Rome, just because he does not pray in Latin, neither is a member of the Dutch Reformed church any less Christian because he cannot speak Dutch. We laugh at DJ’s on Radio when they try so hard to ‘Americanize’ their accents saying they are “Wannabe’s” etc, but I posit that in essence, Zambian and other Non-Caribbean Rasta’s are doing the same thing. I have nothing against Rastafarians, and this is just an observation that occurred as I was pondering the above issue. Two friends of mine who were practicing Rastafarians and prominent musicians (Brian passed away) and Khuzwayo, were of great inspiration in the sense that they maintained their accents and
originality saying, ‘Rastafarianism is a religion and what is important is how I incorporate its teachings into my daily life. That’s what makes me a Rasta. Not whether or not I can speak like Bob-Barley, since his accent came from the part of the world he was born in.’ Food for thought…
Bob Marley- just a typo
Casual Observation. You are right about how Zambians tend to copy accents and ways of speaking. The manner in which someone speaks is determined by the environment in which they were raised. many factors cause people to speak like others. I have experienced this even with some English people who try to sound posh and well spoken. You can sometimes tell that someone went to Oxford or Cambridge by their lack of an accent (as they try to lose their natural accents). However, on this blog, people may just be poking fun at the article.
To casual Observer; as you try hard to show your knowledge, please recognize that Rastas do not consider their culture/lifestyle as a “religion”. In fact the ones who truly live “rasta” hate your classification of “isms” and “schisms”. So that word “rastafarianism”- is madeup by observers like you who feel are in the know. There’s a special RASTA meaning to using certain verbiage in order to identify oneself with the culture, such as “downstroy”, using “I” often, etc…casually observe that.
#54- Thanks for your contribution regarding the issue of accents that I was chiefly addressing in my post.
#55- Thank you also for your ‘Kind comments’. My contribution as alluded to above was addressing the issue of accents particularly among “Rasta’s” of Zambian and other non- Caribbean origin. It is from the perspective of the ‘outside world’ and not from among the members themselves, as your contribution is trying to show. Speaking as a student of Religious Movements, including Rastafarianism (whether its members see it as one or not), and an individual who has associated first hand with participants of this lifestyle, the issue of whether or not this is a religion or an ‘ism’ or
‘schism’, as you put it, remains debatable and open to interpretation.
it is used for many medical purposes……better than babylon water.
Untill that day,when the Mr Minister of Health is really healthy and check online what gud it does….innocent people will go through brutal hands o dem DEC who in sum instanses find themselves as middle guys in the transactions.
Respect the farmer!!!!!.Overstand?
#26 and #28 You have dissapointed me.Mwayaku calo cabene to learn insults.May Our gracious heavenly father deliver you.We are all Zedian guys.My apologies if at all my comment will offend you.Naleka nine Zedian mucalo cabene.
# 59, you cool. Not a problem, it’s just that guy sucks, # 26 and i don’t even care about him as he’s loser.
#45 ignorance has no defence your mind seem to be contaminated with the same stuff i wouldnt stop you till start picking food from the dust bins thats when it will come to yo senses.