‘I sold albino woman for K100m’

CHOMBA MUSIKA
Lusaka
A 60-YEAR-OLD farmer of Lusaka’s Garden House has admitted working with a group of men who tried to sell a 21-year-old Mozambican woman with albinism at K100 million.
It is alleged that the woman was on the verge of being trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation.
Patson Tembo told a magistrate last week that he can even identify the purported buyer of the victim, who had initially been lured with a marriage proposal by one of her assailants.
Tembo and six other men are charged with two counts of conduct facilitating trafficking in persons and prohibition of trafficking in persons.
The offences are against Section 3(1) of the Anti-Human Trafficking Act number 11 of 2018.
The six other suspects are Moses Banda, 25, a farmer of Petauke, Jackson Zulu, 44, a driver of Lusaka’s Sitambula, Andrew Kabali, 37, of Makeni Villa, Emmanuel Mwanla, 29, of Matero, Richard Moonga, 27, of Garden House, and Daniel Mwanza, 38, of Chibisa in Lusaka.
In count one, allegations are that on February 8 this year, the seven men jointly conducted themselves in a manner of facilitating human smuggling.
In the second count, it is alleged that between February 6 and 16 this year, the accused, jointly and while acting together, intentionally and unlawfully trafficked in Theresa Andreas to Zambia for the purpose of engaging in sexual exploitation and receiving of payments or benefits….https://enews.daily-mail.co.zm/