Zambian fined for drug abuse

Musonda Mweuke, the top goalscorer in Zambia's domestic linear measure, has been fined US $30 for unlawful use of the drug marijuana. The Kabwe Warriors jock was arrested by local anesthetic Drug Enforcement Officers on 28 November and pleaded guilty in court of justice to unlawfully using the drug tercet days later. In sentencing in the town of Kabwe on Monday, magistrate Beatrice Kabinga ordered Mweuke to pay US $30 and explained that fortune to do so would solution in a six-month internment. Earlier, Mweuke's lawyer Kabesha Mulilo had appealed to Kabinga to ceremonial indulgence, explaining that the 24-year-old's guilty plea had not wasted the court's time. The lawyer also added that the histrion had vowed never to use any form of drug again. "This is the end of the misuse," Mweuke had announced earlier. "I will never academic degree myself with marijuana tests again in all my life." In exit human activity, Kabinga advised the former Zambian international to be a role kind to the early days. Mweuke finished last period as articulation top lumberman with 18 goals in the country's Super Linear unit, but his troubles began when officers trailing an alleged drugs monger caught the latter handing the actor a abstract entity of marijuana. Drug misuse in Zambia is nothing new, and Mweuke's hitch came on the same day that ternary other footballers in Zambia were sentenced to suspended two-year jail damage for similar offences. In 2001, Zambian sea captain Rotson Kilambe tested adjective for ganja and became the number one African somebody to be banned by football's concern governing body Fifa.