Malawian Pastor sent to jail for theft by trick
Thyolo magistrate court has sent a pastor to four years in jail with hard labour for deceit after he collected K300, 000 from poor villagers in a fertilizer deal that never materialised.
Prosecutors told the court that Pastor Peter Solomon Linyama of Holy Cross Ambassador went to the area of chief Nanseta in Thyolo where he promised in early October that he would provide two bags of fertilizer to each household that gave him advance processing fee of K10000.
The prosecutors said Linyama collected K300, 000 in the process but failed to deliver the NPK and Urea bags of fertilizer as promised.
The villagers then informed the police who hunted him and was arrested end October.
In his ruling Magistrate Ben Chitsakamire said the stiffer punishment was meted out because religious leaders are expected to be exemplary.
His co accused Associate Pastor Ferguson Musai was acquitted.
However the court sent the man of God to the four years in jail for theft.
He has since started serving his jail term.
Pastor Linyama comes from Nkasala Village in Tradional Authority Kalembo in Balaka District.
Discriminatory sentencing is simply not on. Kuba ndi kuba basi. same treatment for same crime!
eeeee apa nde yalakwa mbola iyi
People just join these so called Church without ndi Mfunda omwe. You leave well established churches atakunamizani ndi ma miracle komanso ma prophecy mapeto ake ngozi mukowa nazo zausatana zimenezo
Akanzako anasanduka njoka iwe umafuna kuba
NO NO NO CHILANGO CHACHEPA IZI NDI ZOCHITISA MANYAZI DZINA LA YEHOVA
asadyenso imeneyo. ife tikupanga ubusa omwewo anthu sakatilandila chifukwa cha iwe, mfiti iwe.
Thieves always hide behind churches so a stiff punishment is what they deserve. Glory to God for revealing this kind of mbava
The day of 40 has come
Ayi Ndithu Guyz.Izi Ndi Za Manyazi,kapena Mwina M’chifukwa Choti……………?Oh Shit!!! Mbola Mani.
Ayi Ndithu Guyz.Izi Ndi Za Manyazi,kapena Mwina M’chifukwa Choti……………?