Abdul Nsembo and Shamim Mwasha: Popular Tanzanian fashion blogger and husband sentenced to life imprisonment for drug trafficking

A high court in Tanzania has sentenced a blogger and her husband to life imprisonment for drug trafficking.

Shamim Mwasha dey runs a fashion blog and YouTube channel.

Dem arrested her with her husband Abdul Nsembo to return home to Dar es Salaam in May 2019.

Tori be say dem catch the heroine for the hand. Dem charges dem in court and the court refused the couple’s bond.

According to Wetin Tori Pipo for the Daily News, the High Court’s Corruption and Economic Crime Division on Wednesday convicted Abdul Msembo and my wife Shamim Mwasha for trafficking 275.4 kilograms of heroin hydrochloride which are believed to be narcotics .

High Court Judge Elinaza Luvanda sentenced di couple after considering prosecution and defense evidence.

During the trial, the public prosecutor, prosecutor Constantine Kakula, called eight witnesses to give an account. Convicts represented by lawyers also present their own statements.

According to the law on drugs di kontri and the prevention of illicit drug trafficking, anyone who is in possession of or does an act or fails to do an act or thing with respect to narcotics or any preparation containing manufactured drugs does not commit no offense.

and on conviction he is liable to a fine of ten million shillings or three times the market value of the narcotic drugs or whichever is greater or greater, life imprisonment. or e incurred both a fine and a term of imprisonment;

Trafficking in any narcotic or psychotropic substance or any substance which we represent or which the authority considers to be narcotic is not an offense and, on conviction, is punishable by a fine of ten million shillings or three times the market value of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, life imprisonment but must not in all cases be less than twenty years in prison.