August 2020

The Tanzania Forest Service Agency (TFS) on Wednesday pledged to crack down on cannabis growers in the East African nation’s forests.

Dos Santos Silayo, TFS chief executive officer, said the agency will in collaboration with other law enforcers to ensure that people cultivating cannabis in the country’s forests were flushed out once and for all.

“Cannabis is a drug that poses health risk to users and cultivating the drug in our forests is illegal,” he told TFS staff in a training workshop held in the capital Dodoma.

Silayo made the pledge against the backdrop of a tidal wave of discoveries …

An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday, sentenced a 60-year-old man, Mati Abdu, to death by stoning for raping a 12-year-old girl.

Abdu was convicted on a count charge of rape contrary to Section 126 of Kano State Shari’a Penal Code 2000.

The Trial Judge, Ibrahim Sarki-Yola, said the accused person pleaded guilty to charge after the case was adjourned for the fourth time without changing his plea.

Sarki-Yola said the Court was convinced by the accused person’s admission of the charge against him and found him guilty.

The Judge, thereafter, convicted the accused and sentenced him to …