Audio By Carbonatix
A high court in Tanzania has sentenced a blogger and her husband to life imprisonment for drug trafficking.
Shamim Mwasha runs a fashion blog and a YouTube channel.
She was arrested together with her husband Abdul Nsembo at their home in Dar es Salaam in May 2019.
They were allegedly found with heroin.
The two were charged in court and denied bail.
#TANZANIA: The High Court has today sentenced a couple to life in prison after they were found guilty of drug trafficking.
— Tanzania Daily (@TanzaniaDaily) March 31, 2021
The couple Shamim Mwasha and Abdul Nsembo will also lose their car, Landrover Discovery 4 which has been nationalized by the court. pic.twitter.com/WnX7hq8FTQ
DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
Latest Stories
-
Quality control lapses allowed LGBT content into teachers’ manual – IFEST
3 minutes -
Akufo-Addo’s name will be “written in gold” in Ghana’s history in the fullness of time – Jinapor
5 minutes -
Tread cautiously about financial hedging – US-based Associate Professor to BoG
5 minutes -
LGBTQ curriculum row: Quality control failure, not timing, caused teacher manual controversy – Dr Anti-Partey
8 minutes -
Banks wrote-off GH¢1.39bn as bad debt in 10-months of 2025
13 minutes -
I cannot rate the lands minister’s performance, but… – Abu Jinapor
14 minutes -
Accra’s traffic to blame for public transport crisis—GPRTU
14 minutes -
Banks’ record 47.8% year-on-year growth in profit to GH¢12.6bn in 10-months of 2025
50 minutes -
We stand by our US$214 million loss by BoG due to GoldBod exposure – IMF
55 minutes -
GIPC to host Regional Investment Roadshows in Central and Western Region
1 hour -
Open letter to President John Agyekum Kufour
1 hour -
IGP promotes two officers, commends five others in Tema Regional Police command
1 hour -
Dortmund, Leipzig and Stuttgart track Ghanaian teen Edmund Baidoo after Salzburg surge
1 hour -
Galamsey: Water bodies and lands remain under attack – Abu Jinapor
1 hour -
‘Order from above’: Trotro operators reply as commuters fume over fare hikes amid gridlock
2 hours