Kids for K150m cash ‘traders’ jailed in Malawi

Two Malawian men who tried to sell sale three family members including a two-year old child in July 2013 at   Jendausiku ,  Enukweni area  in Mzimba District are  going to prison for seven years Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Mzuzu convicted them.child for sale

According to police spokesman Maurice Chapola, the court heard that the second convict,  Levison  Manota 23 , of Suzumire village in the area of Traditional Authority Kachere in Dedza   first  met  his accomplice Piason Dzimbiri 42 of Namiwa village in the area of Traditional Authority Chimaliro in Thyolo , at Enukweni when he was recruited as a tenant during 2012 tobacco growing season .

The two reportedly connived to trade in human body parts and the second convict  when he returned home at the end of the growing season, reportedly enticed the family of Ibrahim Kantandi 36  to sell their kids.

Ibrahim and wife offered  the three family members  for sale but one of potential buyers alerted police.

Then Police detectives from Mzuzu  posed themselves as potential buyers  negotiating with the convicts on the price of  K150 million . The court heard that they negotiated to buy them at K120 million before the police officers swooped in to arrest them.

Appearing in court,  the convicts denied the charge of kidnapping and abduction with intent to murder contrary to section 261 of the penal code which attracts a maximum sentence of 10 years IHL.

This prompted the state to parade  seven  witnesses who testified against them.

The court said no one, not even a parent, is allowed to own another person.

In 2011 US state department published a report that named Malawi as a source country for men, women and children to be trafficked for forced labour and sex.

The authors said the Malawi government does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, but was making significant efforts to do so.

Habiba Osman, one of the country’s top human rights lawyers, said many children from Malawi are also taken to other neighbouring countries, such as Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa, where they are forced into the sex trade and/or domestic slavery.

Osman said “its high time lawmakers put tough human trafficking laws in place.”

Apart from the Child Care Protection and Justice Act of 2010 where child trafficking is a criminal offense attracting a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, Malawi is mostly using other laws that prohibit some elements of trafficking such as the Employment Act and Article135 through 147, 257 and 269 of the Penal Code.

Meanwhile, government will table a bill to curb human trafficking during the sitting which resumed on Monday, according to  Leader of the House, Francis Kasaila.

 

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wakukayawakukaya
9 years ago

Ku Thyolo kumeneko.

hoitty
hoitty
9 years ago

Tenant amagona nkumalota 120 million? Eee akanatukuka modabwitsatu. Kenaka akanagulitsa akazi akeo kuti agule Namiyo village yonse awapirikisemo abalache asalemo ekha. Kuteroko akaona anthu a ma estate ali amenewa amagula anthu. sagula anthu ameneo chifukwa chake anakatenga mphawi iwe kuti,uzialimira atukuke nawe ugulr wayilesi uzikasokosa nao ukanka kumuzi

Khodzombwe
9 years ago

Zodziyamba dala akuchepetserani zakazo kuli
Bwimo aknati mukakhale mukunyauda kundende moyo wanu wonse akhwrintotonu.

w.moir
9 years ago

that’s killing deserve death sentence

weddington kamanga
9 years ago

Chilango chachepa apa¤

Tnt Dynamite
Tnt Dynamite
9 years ago

Matenanti Afodyanu,achewanu Ndinu Anthu Owopya Kwambiri. Fodya Mutibele,mwakwatiranso Our Sisters,mumawabeleketsa Ana Chaka Ndi Chaka,without Kulera,kenaka Mwayamba Kugulitsa Ana Ngati Mbuzi.Stupid,you Deserve Death Penalty!!

yontho
9 years ago

winawu siumphawi okha koma uchitsiru. Just imagine kumatengela za maiko ena nkumapha ma albino kuti akagulise ziwalo zawo. No sense.

kadamanja
9 years ago

Nenani kuti atumbuka tiwone apa. Mwachoka uko kuyipitsa anzanu.

flandes
flandes
9 years ago

Such unhuman behaviour some. Animals we call people

mary
mary
9 years ago

teach them a lesson!

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