The Livingstone Magistrate has convicted a 33-year-old Zimbabwean identified as George Hurasha for trafficking a 20-year-old Zambian for sexual exploitation contrary to section 3(2) of the Anti-Human Trafficking Amendment Act of 2022.
The suspect was apprehended on 3rd September 2023, at Victoria Falls Boarder Control when he attempted to return to Zambia with his victim who had no travel document.
Immigration Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka told RCV News in Lusaka today that the Zambian victim did not have any travel document and that the suspect facilitated her entry into Zimbabwe on 2nd September 2023 where he sexually exploited her.
“Investigations revealed that George Hurasha entered Zambia on 2nd September 2023 as an ordinary visitor and on the same day met and introduced himself to the victim as a prophet at a church called New Creation Ministries”, said Mr. Nshinka.
Mr. Nshinka said the suspect began making negative prophesies over the victim’s life and promised to reverse her purported looming misfortunes with prayers during an upcoming conference at his church in Victoria Falls Town in Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, the Department of Immigration in Lusaka has removed 225 illegal immigrants from the country.
Those removed during the mass removal exercise conducted on 5th and 6th July 2024 were 110 Burundians, 56 Tanzanians, 50 Ethiopians, four Rwandese, the Ugandans and two Somalis.
The Department said the exercise was undertaken to decongest the Correctional facilities where the foreign nationals were detained.
The mass removal exercise brought the number of illegal immigrants removed between 5th and 7th, 2024 to 266.
By Margaret Mwanza
