JACKSON CHAMA THE INSULTIVE INFLUENCER PUT ON 12 MONTHS HOT ICE FOR HATE SPEECH
JACKSON CHAMA THE INSULTIVE INFLUENCER PUT ON 12 MONTHS HOT ICE FOR HATE SPEECH.
Lazarus Syakambole.
A 30 year old man who was slapped with a charge of hate speech has been sentenced to 12 months with hard labour imprisonment by the Kalomo subordinate court over his divisive content and now faces the music for his hateful utterances
Before resident magistrate Hamaimbo Mooya was a Mr Jackson Chama 30, of house number 238 of Makeni area in Lusaka who was apprehended in Lusaka in connection to the alleged offence of hate speech contrary to section 65 of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act of 2021.
Chama was slapped with the charge following a complaint on February 16 from Lyod Siatontola aged 53 of plot no. 30 Stage 3 compound of Kalomo on behalf of the state that an unknown male person while using a computer system shot a video and posted it on social media platforms; Tik Tok, Facebook and whatsup in which was heard disparaging people of Southern province as an ethnic group that was entrusted by the people of Zambia to rule the country but that they have lamentably failed and alikened the state of affairs in the country to that of Somalia.
In the video, chama further said that the youth of Southern province better seize this moment while it lasts and get employed as police officers, office of the President or as soldiers adding that when they come back into power, everyone would be chased.
When the facts of the matter were read to him by the prosecution desk today in court, the accused acknowledged the details of the offence which prompted magistrate Mooya during the judgement to slap a one year jail sentence on Chama.
“Taking in consideration that you are a first offender and you are a breadwinner of your family, I sentence you to 12 months imprisonment so that when you come back from jail you will be an ambassador of peace not divisions,” judged magistrate Mooya.
Meanwhile, Chama has appealed through the court to the republican President Hakainde Hichilema to forgive him for his mischievous utterances.
Both the smartphone and a diskette he stored the disparaging hate speech video which was recovered by the Police cyber security wing and brought to court as evidence have also been forfeited to the state.
(C)Voice of Kalomo news.