SENATE APPROVES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS. (PHOTO).

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 Senate Approves Death Penalty For Drug Traffickers The Senate has approved the death penalty for those convicted on the charge of drug trafficking in the country. The punishment prescribed in the extant NDLEA Act is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of a report of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024. The Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights & Legal Matters presented the report during plenary, Sen.Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno North). The bill, which passed its third reading, aims to update the list of dangerous drugs, strengthen the operations of the NDLEA, review penalties, and empower the establishment of laboratories. Section 11 of the current Act prescribes that “any person who, without lawful authority; imports, manufactures, produces, processes, plants or grows the drugs popularly

MOZAMBIQUE PASSES AMNNESTY LAW FOR OPPOSITION LEADER AHEAD OF OCTOBER ELECTION.

Mozambique's opposition RENAMO Presidential candidate Afonso Dhlakama shows an ink dyed finger after voting in the country's Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Elections in Maputo October 28, 2009.   REUTERS/Grant Lee Neuenburg            The amnesty law will allow opposition ''Renamo party leader'',Afonso Dhlakama to leave his hide way in the bush to sign a peace accord with President Armando Guebuza and run in an October 15 election.The law was approved late on Tuesday also applied to Dhlakama's supporters who had clashed with the government army since 2012.The violence raised fears for stability in the Southern African nation which is developing big coal and off shore gas deposits.The amnesty is part of a peace deal between Renamo and Guebuza's ruling Frelimo party,old foes in a 1975-1992 civil war,and means Dhlakama will not face prosecution or arrest for the attacks carried out by his followers over the last year.Dhlakama,whose former rebel movement has been repeatedly defeated by Frelimo in elections since the end of the war,has lived in a bush base in Central Sofala province for more than a year to escape what he says is government persecution.He is now expected to travel to the capital Maputo to sign a formal peace accord with Guebuza ahead of the October 15 election,in which he has registered as Renamo's presidential candidate.The constitution bars Guebuza from running for a third term and former Defense minister Filipe Nyusi will run as the Frelimo candidate.

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