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Two Pangolin Poachers Jailed For 9 Years

5 months agoWed, 30 Oct 2024 08:26:41 GMT
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Two Pangolin Poachers Jailed For 9 Years

Two men from Bikita and Marondera respectively, were each sentenced to 9 years in prison by a Mutare magistrate after being caught with a pangolin.

Pangolins are specially protected animals under the Parks and Wildlife Act, and possessing one illegally can result in severe penalties, including a mandatory minimum sentence of 9 years imprisonment.

According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Tapiwa Machaya (43) from Bikita and Rodrick Murambisi (32) from Marondera appeared before the Mutare Magistrates’ Court for contravening the Parks and Wildlife Act.

On July 16, 2024, CID Mutare received information that the accused had a pangolin and were looking for a buyer.

Detectives, posing as buyers, contacted Murambisi using a number provided by a whistleblower and arranged to meet at Manica Skyview Hotel.

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The detectives observed Murambisi disembarking from a Toyota Aqua and invited him into their vehicle. He stated he needed US$6,000 for the pangolin. The first accused, Machaya, was waiting nearby with a brown satchel.

Once the price was agreed upon, the detectives revealed their identities and searched, discovering a pangolin in a brown sack within Machaya’s satchel.

The accused could not produce a permit authorising them to possess the pangolin, leading to their arrest. The pangolin, weighing 4.2 kg and valued at US$5,000, was recovered.

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16 Comments

Chivayo Me · 5 months ago
l am selling 3 elephant tasks and a pangolin
Hustler · 5 months ago
l am s3
Imhenyu · 5 months ago
Pipo pliz musafa makaita madeals epangolin, nyanga dzenzou,nyanga dzechupembere,uye copper wire,muno muZimbabwe,malast buyers acho maC.I.D,muno mune network yezvinhu izvi yakasogadzirwa kare for that
Anonymous · 5 months ago
Except for looting gold and looting $ using zig like paying civil servants today and devalue it by 50% and make profit of 50%
Jusie · 5 months ago
that's very true
🕺🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️ · 5 months ago
asking price 6000 actual price 5000 = 9years imprisonment lesson don't trade in sht you know jack about, unonyura
Rurue · 5 months ago
pangolin ine gold mu****u
g · 5 months ago
muchadzidza rinhiko kuti haka Haina dhiri. ukatosangana nayo better kuidya because hanzi inonaka ndosaka mambo achikupa jongwe ukaenda nayo. same nenyanga yenzou Haina nemari yese kufira mahara. 9 years for nothing
ED · 5 months ago
mucham*am*a mese mirai muone 2030 ndinenge ndiripo
Dr Observer MURIDZI WENYAYA · 5 months ago
Kamhuka ikaka 9macalander murikudii kubata varikubira nyika Mari corruption
nicole · 5 months ago
kkkkk taura hako
Bray Wyatt · 5 months ago
Some of the laws that are enacted are just they to keep the black man down... Natural progression of anything tends to extinction, personally I see no wrong if you are making a living out of selling pangolins.. To make the situation even more dire is that the president or chiefs are allowed to eat the savour meet setting a precedent as in animal farms that some animals are higher than other animals! All those poaching laws are a bunch of bullocks, a man should make his own choice wether to accept being civilized and institutionalized or not ( remaining in the steps of our great great grandfather's of hunters and gatherers).. Civilisation came with its advantages that you can't doubt but some of these laws are discriminatory.. imagine a stockpile of ivory that are in the coffers of the state that are just lying idle funds which could have been used to help those people that are in need or simply put money going to rot.....
Professor L · 5 months ago
but if not for such laws and stiff penalties,those creatures like pangolins,rhinos would be extinct by now.
Murevi weshuwa · 5 months ago
taura hako
Corruptmore Looto · 5 months ago
You are very arrogant, conservation efforts mainly gathered pace in the 60s and the 70s because a lot of animals were now disappearing. People shouldn't be left to do what they want, they clearly need laws to stop their ****ity from harming everything around them

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