Ivory dealer fined P25,000

The fine is payable in seven days, failure of which he will spend five years in jail. “Furthermore, he is sentenced to five years in jail, wholly suspended for three years on condition that he does not commit a similar offence,” said principal magistrate, Dumisani Basupi.

The accused, Uyapo Jerry, was convicted after he entered into his own plea of guilty. He was initially charged along with Mbatshi Walila, 30, also from Tutume, who was discharged because of lack of evidence. Jerry committed the offence at Dumela Industrial Site in Francistown on November 10, 2014.