Copperbelt-based businesswoman Khadijah Miguel has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for trafficking in 500 grammes of cocaine.
The Lusaka Magistrates’ Court handed down the sentence on Tuesday morning following her conviction on the drug trafficking charge.
However, Miguel is expected to regain her freedom by October this year. The court suspended 18 months of the sentence, and her custodial term was backdated to May last year when she was arrested.
With the suspended portion taken into account and time already served, she will only serve the remaining balance of the effective sentence before being released.
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Pat on the back for drugging our society. Had it been a dagga dealer it would have been 10 years
Money rules the world
And the prosecution is satisfied with this? Big invitation to peddlers to transit their wares through Zambia