Zimbabwe: Man Jailed 10 Years for Unlawful Possession of Dagga

24 June 2025
New Zimbabwe (London)

A 27-year-old Bulawayo man has been slapped with a 10-year jail term after he was convicted of unlawful possession of dagga.

Obvious Ngwenya was caught with 19.01 kilograms of dagga.

The state proved that on the 20th of May 2025, Ngwenya boarded a pirate taxi from Beitbridge to Bulawayo.

He carried a suspicious parcel wrapped in a light blue comforter, which he paid the driver to transport separately.

"At the 129km peg along the Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road, the vehicle was stopped at a routine police roadblock.

"The offender tried to block police officers from searching the vehicle's boot and refused to identify his parcel," said prosecutors.

However, after interviewing the driver and other passengers, police established that the parcel belonged to him.

Inside the parcel, the police found 33 cobs of dagga hidden in black plastic bags.

The total weight of the seized dagga was confirmed to be 19.01 kg.

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