adminThe girls, aged 14 and 15, spent three weeks in a police cell after they failed to satisfy bail conditions, thus paying cash bail bond of K4 000 and provide one surety each.
Instead, the girls brought in their friends as surety, forcing the court to cancel the already issued bail.
Magistrate Esme Tembenu of the Blantyre Child Justice Court convicted the girls who are said to have stoned some ruling People’s Party (PP) female supporters in Bangwe during civil servants’ pay rise strikes.
Magistrate Tembenu’s ruling to send the girls to reformatory centre follows legal previsions which bar incarceration of teenagers in main prisons.
Meanwhile, the number of incarcerated girls at Mpemba Reformatory Centre has come to 10 following the conviction of the three girls.
Angry pupils across Blantyre city joined by other youths turned violent as they took to the streets in protest for not learning.
Business came to a standstill in the central business district of commercial capital Blantyre when school kids from different primary schools in the city took to the streets singing anti- Joyce Banda songs.
Clad in their school uniforms, the children were running in the streets causing traffic jam.
In Bangwe just like other townships, the pupils blocked the roads and stoned vehicles in protest for not learning as their teachers were on strike demanding 65 percent pay hike. – Nyasa Times.
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