Police arrest farmer for breaking trespassers legs
By Oliver Chisenga
Fri 30 Aug. 2013, 14:01 CAT
POLICE have arrested and charged the Chikumbi farmer who allegedly drove over the legs of two subsistence farmers as punishment for trespassing on her farm.
The farmer identified as Vyness Magoye, who is remanded at Kabangwe police post, has been charged with acts intended to cause grievous harm while her light truck, Mitsubishi Canter, has been impounded as evidence.
Last Saturday, James Gumbo, 29, and Clever Mutangama, 31, of Chikumbi sustained broken bones in their lower limbs after Magoye allegedly drove over them for collecting tomato stakes in her farmland without permission.
Magoye is alleged to have ordered her farm workers to tie Gumbo and Mutangama, after which she drove over their legs as punishment even after they asked for leniency.
A check at Kabangwe police post found Gumbo and Mutangama recording their statements in the company of their relatives.
And a source at the police post revealed that Magoye, who had moved from Chikumbi to her Makeni farm, had been jointly charged with her farm worker who helped her tie the two victims.
According to the source, Magoye, who on Wednesday eluded police at her Chikumbi farm, turned up at Kabangwe police post in the company of her lawyer, a Mr Ndindi.
"The officer in-charge has been calling this lady since yesterday (Wednesday) but she kept saying she was stuck in traffic. We were told that she has moved to her other house in Makeni," said the source.
But Magoye, who denied having driven over the two farmers' legs, explained that she was fed up with people stealing things from her farm.
"Nalema (I am tired). Do you know how many people I have caught stealing on my farm? Last time they tied my cattle herder and stole my cows; I am tired of these people," said Magoye.
Labels: CLEVER MUTANGAMA, CRIME, JAMES GUMBO, UTH
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Chikumbi farmer drives over trespassers' legs
By Oliver Chisenga and Tom Chiponge
Wed 28 Aug. 2013, 14:01 CAT
COMMENT - How is this not assault? I wonder how many years in prison she is going to get for it. - MrK
TWO subsistence farmers of Chikumbi area near Kabangwe are nursing injuries in the University Teaching Hospital after a farm owner of the same area allegedly drove over their legs as punishment for trespassing on her farm.
Narrating the ordeal from their hospital beds, James Gumbo, 29, and Clever Mutangama, 31, said the farm owner, whose name they do not know, found them collecting tomato stakes at her farmland and ordered her employees to tie them, after which she drove over their legs as punishment even after they asked for leniency.
"We went to find stakes for our tomatoes at this lady's farm but after we were almost done, the owner of the farm found us and asked her farm workers to tie our hands using wires. After they beat us, we asked for leniency but she ordered that we sit down before driving over our feet. She left us in the field after we were driven over and we could not walk. We called for some people to alert our relatives, who came and picked us up. We were assisted to go to Kabangwe police post and there, the officers referred us to Matero Police Station," narrated Gumbo.
Matangama, a father of three, lamented that being a farmer, he would have difficulties sustaining his family as he would be confined.
"Siniziba nganizasebenza bwanji ndaba mendo yatyoka. Banibweza kumbuyo apa, nchinto yanga yonse yafa (I don't know how I will be working now that my legs are broken; this is a drawback, it is the end of my work)," lamented Mutangama.
And UTH public relations manager Mwenya Mulenga said the two patients who were received on Saturday had broken bones in their lower limbs.
He, however, said the duo was stable and would be discharged and return for review at a date to be advised.
Labels: CLEVER MUTANGAMA, CRIME, JAMES GUMBO, UTH
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