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Original Post Date: 2001-09-22 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 9/22/2001 10:22:05 PM
Mugabes releases Drug Dealers
author/source:Zimbabwe Independent
published:Fri 21-Sep-2001
Lawyers this week said it was unfair for the government to release the drug
dealers on perceived medical grounds when criminals convicted of petty crimes
were dying in prisons on a daily basis
Brian Hungwe
The government has released international drug dealers under a presidential
pardon, the Zimbabwe Independent has learnt. Among the drug dealers released
in May on the advice of the Ministry of Justice were the former South African
Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) deputy chief representative in Zimbabwe, Ramudi
Michael Maphai, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1992 after the
High Court found him guilty of smuggling into the country 963kg of mandrax
tablets worth $40 million. Maphai had contravened a section of the Drug and
Allied Substances Control Act and the judges found “overwhelming evidence”
against him and his co-accused, Chandrakan Ajmera, who also received a
similar sentence. Maphai was released on medical grounds due to an asthma
problem. Ajemra, who is suffering from diabetes, was also pardoned on medical
grounds. A Dutch national, Lucien Lafleur, jailed for possession of two
tonnes of mbanje, was also pardoned on medical grounds after persistent
complaints of chest pains.
Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa said he remembered recommending the
release of Ajmera whose pardon he said was granted on medical grounds and
age. “I will have to check on all the relevant information and come back to
you,” Chinamasa said earlier this week. He has yet to furnish details of the
pardon granted to Maphai and Lafleur. Ajmera was aged 45 when he was
incarcerated in 1992. Lawyers this week said it was unfair for the government
to release the drug dealers on perceived medical grounds when criminals
convicted of petty crimes were dying in prisons on a daily basis.
ZimRights director Munyaradzi Bidi reacted with revulsion to the release,
declaring that drug dealing had caused untold suffering, money laundering,
violent crimes, corruption and murder. “Is it in the national interest for
the international drug dealers to walk out the doors of the jails and return
to their drug dealing ways?” Bidi asked. “The government cannot be allowed to
pardon certain classes of criminals that include international drug dealers,”
he said. “We know that there is a legal way of pardoning such criminals but
that should stop and jails are there to keep and rehabilitate such criminals
until they serve their sentences to the full as per the judgements,” Bidi
said. “The government is indirectly sanctioning drug trafficking. We need to
get rid of such kind of criminals by putting them behind bars, not give in on
petty medical grounds when they will have created untold suffering amongst
innocent children whose future is now bleak because of drug abuse,” he said.