South Africa’s top court on Tuesday handed former president Jacob Zuma a 15-month jail term for contempt of court following his refusal to appear before graft investigators.
“The Constitutional Court can do nothing but conclude that Mr Zuma is guilty of the crime of contempt of court,” judge Sisi Khampepe said. Zuma, 79, is accused of enabling the plunder of state coffers during his nearly nine-year stay in office.“I am left with no option but to commit Mr Zuma to imprisonment, with the hope that doing so sends an unequivocal message… the rule of law and the administration of justice prevails.”
“The majority judgement orders an unsuspended sentence of imprisonment for a period ,” she declared, ordering Zuma to hand himself over within five days.The panel was set up by Zuma himself, under pressure over mounting scandals, shortly before he was ousted in 2018 by the ruling African National Congress .
What happens to his statue in Owerri, Imo State?
It can never happen in Nigeria instead they will jail activist
Why 15 months?…poor man get full sentence
only?
This is how a country is ruled… no one is above the law
D same ZUMA stature was errected somewhere in nigeria..what a shame
Reason why Nigeria is better than U.K. Your mumu no too much!
That's county where rule of law works
This is what they call nobody is above the law if this is true..
Nigeria politicians need to learn from this. There's life after a tenure, no lifetime immunity.
I wish we could localized this sort of news stories in Nigeria but hey ..ain't happening
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