Freeman fined $50 by Magistrate for lying that his passport was stolen

Harare Magistrate Joy Chikodzero convicted Zimdancehall musician Freeman, real name Energy Chizanga, of deliberately supplying false information to a public authority. She convicted Freeman on his own plea of guilty and fined him $50 or 30 days in prison.

This comes after the musician in July 2015, applied for a new passport and lied to the Registrar General’s Department that his passport had been stolen. In actual fact, the musician wanted a second passport as he had sent his first passport to the British Embassy for a visa application. The matter was discovered only after the British Visa expired and Freeman resubmitted the “lost” passport. The Embassy realised the anomaly and reported the matter to the police leading to his arrest.

MOre: HMetro