UNIVERSITY of Zambia student’s quest to become a doctor has been temporarily halted after he was together with his ‘business’ partner for stealing phones from six students.

The student, Mike Musonda, 26, and his co-accused Equinox Tembo,24, unemployed, were jailed three years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing six phones valued at more than K14,000.

Musonda and Tembo appeared in court last week charged with six counts of theft, offences committed between August 1 and October 31, 2024.

Between the same dates, the duo stole a samsung galaxy M34 worth K4,500 from Grace Chanda, while in the second count, the accused stole an Iphone 6 worth K2,000 from Beatrice Mutale.

Accusations in the third count are that the accused stole a Huawei Pic Lite with K2,500 from Natasha Nyawa and that in the fourth count, the duo also stole an Itel S23 phone worth K2,500 from Catherine Chipasha.

In count five, the accused stole an Itel KB7 worth K2,600 from Dorcas Moyo and later stole a Techno pop 6 valued at K,1,800, the property of Mishel Siwale, in respect of the last count.

The both admitted the charges before Lusaka magistrate Amy Masoja-Chilangwa and told the court they had no claim to right to the phones.

Evidence is that during the material times, the first complaint, Ms Chanda, an UNZA student, was on her way to campus when she met Musonda, who introduced himself as an entrepreneur.

Musonda, who informed Ms Chanda that he was looking for people to ‘work’ with, later introduced her to Tembo, while at UNZA campus.

At the time, Ms Chanda had called her friend Beatrice Mutale informing her about a ‘job’ the two gentlemen were offering.

The accused later told Ms Chanda and Ms Mutale that they needed to capture their details so that they could give them identity cards for the ‘job’.

The accused then got a Samsung and an iPhone phone from the ladies on the pretext that they would get some details from the gadgets.

Musonda left with the phones leaving behind Tembo with the ladies before the latter also excused himself claiming that he wanted to use the toilet before he disappeared.

After realizing that they had been duped, the two ladies rushed to the university main entrance to alert security.

On the way, the duo met Tembo who then fled before the ladies ,security guards and other students pursued him while shouting thief.

After being apprehended, Tembo led security guards to the apprehension of Musonda before the duo was taken to Kalundu Police Post.

When news of the detention of the duo spread through campus, other affected students emerged and reported that their phones were equally stolen in a similar manner.

The affected victims went to Kalundu Police Station and gave their statements and positively identify the accused as the ones who stole their phones, which were not recovered.

In mitigation, Musonda, a medical student, asked for forgiveness because he had learnt a lesson while in remand

I’ve seen how much my friends are in pain because they now know that freedom is important. I’ve lost my sister and I am the first born. If I go for a long time, my family will be in pain” he said.

The convict said his conduct was motivated by joining bad company saying “It’s just that the friends I met made me start doing bad things’,” Musonda said.

The court heard that Musonda is a third year student but never wrote exams.

“So, instead of studying you were duping people” the magistrate said.

On his part, Tembo equally asked for leniency, pledging never to re-offend because “I am not supposed to do bad things. I want to go back to school. I want to rewrite biology”.

“You want to join him(Musonda) after rewriting biology,” the magistrate queried.

The magistrate observed that the convicts were not fully remorseful for stealing students phones, which carry vital information.

She sentenced them to three years imprisonment each.

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