LUSAKA photographic artist Cornelius Mulenga famously known as Chellah Tukuta has been condemned to two years detainment with hard labor

 

LUSAKA photographic artist Cornelius Mulenga famously known as Chellah Tukuta has been condemned to two years detainment with hard work for maligning previous Information and Broadcasting Services serve Ms Dora Siliya. 

Tukuta in a video which he posted on his Facebook page on May 26, 2020 blamed Ms Siliya for being a pimp who offers young ladies to high profile men for sex. 

Conveying judgment, Judge Lameck Mwale who sat as an officer, said the arraignment has demonstrated the charges against Tukuta without question and he indicted him for the offense.  

Justice Mwale said any individual who opens someone else to scorn, criticism and hatred was at risk to slander. 

He said Tukuta's distribution was illegitimately distributed and intended to malign Ms Siliya. 

"I discover the assertion by the charged that Ms Siliya offers young ladies to prominent and is the most elevated of the greatest expert whores very thoughtless and determined to harm Ms Siliya's standing." he said. 

Officer Mwale said the way that she had been in bombed relationship doesn't make her an expert whore. 

Tukuta's legal advisor Meamande Wamukwamba from Linda Kasonde's law office requested that the court practice most extreme mercy. 

However, officer Mwale said he was profoundly worried that there are individuals who are in the propensity for genuinely stigmatizing others. 

He said he would met out discipline which would discourage other would-be guilty parties and condemned Tukuta to two years with impact from today.  

Tukuta in his video distributed disparaging matter influencing Siliya in which he expressed that: "This Dora Siliya is connecting young ladies, offering young ladies to the high profile individuals, so men can be dozing [with them], she is really the most noteworthy of the greatest expert whore. In the event that Dora Siliya is rejecting these charges that she doesn't associate young ladies to high profile individuals for sex, let her come". 

He argued not liable and the matter continued to preliminary where Siliya affirmed that: "I might be single, I may have bombed connections, I might be separated however that doesn't make me a general whore." 

She said regardless of whether she is single, being in bombed relationship or separated doesn't mean she sells individuals for sex. 

At the point when found with a case to reply and set on safeguard, Tukuta picked to stay quiet and didn't call observers.