THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has convicted and slapped a 36-year-old South African national with a two-year suspended sentence for drug trafficking. This was after Kim Armour Gittings, through his lawyer, pleaded for leniency saying he has a condition which forces him to indulge in drugs, but he does not trade them. Kim Armour Gittings was facing two counts of trafficking in psychotropic substances Contrary to Section (15)(1)(2) of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 and read with Statutory Instrument No. 119 of 1995 of the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence were that Gittings, on February 5, 2024, in Lusaka, did traffic in 23 bottles of cannabis oil without lawful authority. In the second...