Father, son arrested for cultivating cannabis Sativa

Malawi: Zakalia Nyirenda, 56, and his 24-year-old son, Lufeyo Zakalia, were arrested in Ntchisi district for allegedly cultivating cannabis Sativa, locally known as chamba, without a licence, writes Sergeant Yohane Tasowana, Ntchisi Police Station Public Relations Officer.

The police received information from the Anti-Organized Crime Office that the duo grew cannabis Sativa in their garden in Kafulu village.

After receiving the information, a team of CID police officers investigated and arrested the two, uprooting 945 plants in the process.

The uprooted hemp will be analysed at the Chitedze Research Station.

The two will appear in court soon to answer the charge of illegally cultivating cannabis Sativa.

They are from Kafulu village in the Traditional Authority Chilooko area of the Ntchisi district.