Highfields man jailed for selling biscuits baked with mbanje to school children

A 26-year-old man from Highfields, Harare, has

been jailed for two years after being found guilty

of illegally dealing in dangerous drugs.

 

Fortune Tendai Kasina was convicted by the

Mbare Magistrates’ Court after admitting to

baking and distributing cannabis-laced cookies

which were consumed by schoolchildren.

 

His co-accused, 20-year-old Leenkan

Zvikomborero Muzanechita denied the charges

and remains in remand prison awaiting trial.

 

The case came to light on 21 August when a

police officer at Machipisa Police Station

received a tip-off that pupils at First Choice

College in Highfields were intoxicated after

eating the drug-laced cookies.

 

Police attended the scene, interviewed the

students and were led to Muzanechita who in

turn implicated Kasina as the manufacturer.

 

Offcers recovered 20 prepared ganja cookies, a

sachet of soda, baking powder and a plastic bag

containing an unidentified powder.

 

Kasina pleaded guilty and was sentenced to

three years in jail with one year suspended

leaving him to serve an effective two years

behind bars.

 

Magistrates warned that drug offences were a

growing menace in communities and pledged

that offenders would face the full force of the

law.