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General Kanene Says He Is Looking Up To God For Redemption
SINGER Clifford Dimba, alias General Kanene, says he is looking up to God for redemption as he battles against his conviction and subsequent 18-year jail sentence handed down on him for defilement.
Dimba, 27, was in February this year convicted by the magistrate’s court for defilement and last month the Lusaka High Court sentenced him to 18 years imprisonment with hard labour but he has appealed to the Supreme Court against both conviction and sentence.
His lawyer Nicholas Chanda has argued that it was wrong for the court to convict his client in an event that there was a lacuna of evidence in terms of lack of the girl’s birth record.
Dimba has told the Sunday Mail in an interview at Lusaka Central Prison that he is coping with prison life.
“When you go to a new place you have to suit the environment. Challenges are different when you are in prison and when you are outside but there is nothing we can do because we have found ourselves here. It is only God who knows and so we just have to pray.
“I am missing my family but it is just a matter of time. When time for something comes it means it has come and the next thing is God. So we just have to trust God because he himself knows why he removes you from society and brings you here; and the time he will release you from here and take you back to society. It means there is something he wants you to have,” Dimba said.
Donning a red vest and red shorts, the singer, renowned for his controversial social commentary in his lyrics, said he has learnt many lessons in prison since he was incarcerated last February.
“I have learnt how to live with people and believing in God because here in prison more time is spent on praying. People out there should know that I am here and I am still alive. Here in prison it is like we have come to church. We are on the tour of the church and we are serving God here,” he said.
Dimba said he does not believe that all offenders should be in prison, adding that those behind bars are the ‘chosen’ ones.
“Those who are outside are going through bad things like alcohol abuse and smoking but here there is nothing like that. So we are like somebody who has been taken on a tour to learn and spread the gospel. So even if I spend five, 10 or 18 years here, it means I am on a tour of serving God,” he said.
Sentencing Dimba, Judge Chalwe Mchenga said from the evidence adduced, it was clear that he had planned to have sex with the girl because he told her not to meet him in uniform, adding that he would punish the convict to deter all would-be offenders because defilement cases are on the increase in the country.
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kanene
June 1, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Why didn’t you remember GOD before you committed the ACT?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
June 2, 2014 at 7:32 pm
pookie
Chimbwi nayena alikwata abanankwe
June 1, 2014 at 2:58 pm
Why have the Police not arrested the baboons who shamelessly pregnanted over 49 under sixteen school girls at Kaoma and Hillside secondary schools in Kaoma and Chipata respectively.For those girls to conceive it simply means DEFILEMENT took place.Unfortunately the ZP and the courts found an easy meat to chew on Gen Kanene! Can the govt tell the people of Zambia WHEN DOES DEFILEMENT BECOME DEFILEMENT if the the Casanovas responsible for those school girls pregnancies have been let freely in our streets.Release Gen Kanene-since our justice system is loose and selective.
Wanu Ngwee
June 1, 2014 at 3:13 pm
From the little I know of this case, I thought the general view was that the court ruling and conviction were wrong and unfair, but if these are his real words quoted verbatim, THEN HE’S GUILTY AND REALLY SOUNDS REMORSEFUL!
Mupeta
June 1, 2014 at 4:56 pm
You’re not the first to be imprisoned,chill man!
you’re a prisoner,and who gives you a right to talk to the free men and women?
@webwambabwandi wandetelela….
ukutemwa utu punda utwingi.
ati
June 1, 2014 at 6:11 pm
after sentence you will be out and hope reformation will have taken place.
eng
June 1, 2014 at 6:19 pm
i feel for kanene.but he was wrong to screw ka under age.what if it was yo daughter being boinked by a polygamous man.imagine him using mutoba congo, kifaru and congo dust all on yo premature dota. i think just serve ka 18yrs.kalifye bwino
diamond platinum
June 1, 2014 at 6:31 pm
I hope you will change for good
Mukolwe
June 1, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Bo kanene utapengi musa kwanchaala bo mazuba mashoonto ulazwa now u shud stop Bonking small small girls
DIP STICK
June 1, 2014 at 10:24 pm
WHERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE GIRL WAS UNDER AGE IF BIRTH RECORDS WERE NOT AVAILED?
IF ALSO TRUE THAT THIS GIRL HAD A CHILD BEFORE THE KANENE CASE, WHERE IS THE FATHER TO THAT CHILD AND WHY ARE PARENTS TO THIS GIRL NOT BRINGING THE GUY TO BOOK?
OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS ERRING SOMEWHERE SOMEHOW. TOO MUCH GRAY AREAS HERE.
MAY TRUE JUSTICE PREVAIL.
SILENT VOICE
June 1, 2014 at 11:57 pm
DIP STICK YOU ARE SICK IN YOUR HEAD JUST LIKE KANENE,WHY DID HE LEAVE HIS UGLY WIVES FOR A KA SMALL GIRL?
LUKA ZALU BANDA
June 2, 2014 at 2:02 am
g kanene his a gud guy give him a second chance pliz that geo was not defild there was a relationship between them.like here in zambia 80 per cent of tuma young geoz they have some boyfriends, on top of that that geo had already a child with another guy is that fair? G kanene had the families were do they think his childrens will go and his 3 wifes? no wonder here in zambia there is no improvement coz mutidyakilila, we will continue pray for him until his freedom one love kanene-from luka zalu.
kakolwe
June 2, 2014 at 5:09 am
Ubukopo is becoming extremely dangerous. You that have foolish laws in your heads ‘defilement is not deflowering’. Kanene had no right to go fukcing young school girls just because they were fukced by another id!ot earlier. Can you argue that the court go easy on you coz the bank you robbed had been robbed before?
who
June 2, 2014 at 9:20 am
Redemption is on the way in the name of God
Hitler
June 2, 2014 at 9:27 am
Kanene is a virgin,,, lol
mputyu
June 2, 2014 at 9:37 am
Lol,, Pakunyenga waleunfwa bwino,, lelo walaibukisha lesa,
SISHEKANO WINA
June 2, 2014 at 11:12 am
MY FRIEND ITS TIME I KEEP PRAYING 4 U .
zambian
June 2, 2014 at 12:17 pm
Too bad for kanene,true he needs God and prayers
kayula patrice
June 2, 2014 at 12:51 pm
imwe ba sos livingstone. where did you find that prostitute you employed ku community.what picture are you showing to the community?that woman has finished peoples husbands.recently she was even taken to court for aduterly .please help the community.
Village Chicken
June 2, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Gen Kanene, you sound mature, hopefully. Keep writing the music, your experiences and since you can even give an interview, those warders can allow you do a live jig, in prison… Can’t wait for your next hit(s) man. You will be out!!
edav
June 3, 2014 at 8:26 am
God’s chasening
ili bad
June 3, 2014 at 8:33 am
@kayula Patrice, you are mad and useless, infact you are an idiot o sorry Elliot, why bringing in an issue about livingstone the issue at hand iwe ulakumbwa amahule yaku l/stone alaaaa!!! Elliot ngauli mwanakashi, idiot ngaulimwame kayula.
Dizilo
June 9, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Let him serve
TOPHER
June 10, 2014 at 4:39 pm
HE WE SAVE 3YEARS WITH HIS LAST APEAL.