A 27-YEAR-OLD student, reportedly expecting twins, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for breaking into a house where she even had the luxury of taking a bath before stealing goods worth K680.
It is not the first time Mishael Njobvu Ababa has been found on the wrong side of the law.
Five months ago, another magistrate imposed a three-year suspended sentence on her.
In March, Ababa, who at the time identified herself as Habiba Tembo, escaped a possible 14-year jail term for stealing a four-year-old boy she allegedly wanted to sell and buy drugs.
Lusaka magistrate Constance Kasankala exercised leniency and imposed a three-year sentence on her but suspended the whole term to one year.
The convict, who initially denied the charge but later admitted at a lawyer’s instruction, was later freed since the entire jail term was suspended.
But the convict was last month back in court with a different name.
Ababa was charged with housebreaking and theft, an offence she readily admitted to committing before Lusaka magistrate Keegan Litiya.
She admitted breaking into Asubishu Ngosa’s house through a window on May 18, 2024.
