Tributes Pour in For Tanzanian Actress Agnes Masogange
The popular actress and video vixen has died from pneumonia at Mama Ngoma hospital at Mwenge in Kinondoni Municipality. Agnes was on April 6, ordered to pay a total of U.S.$450,000 or serve two years in jail after a magistrate found that she was using the illicit drugs Heroin and Oxazepam.
Confirming her death, Dr Rama Ngoma told EATV that Masogange died from pneumonia and low blood pressure after being admitted at the medical facility for four days.
On April 3rd 20187, On April 3rd, Masogange was sentenced to three years in jail or a fine of Sh67, 000 after she was found guilty of drugs and substance abuse.
Run-ins with the law
On July 5 203, Masogange was arrested in South Africa alongside one Mellisa Edward while trying to smuggle 180 Kgs of Ephedrine into the country. Ephedrine is an ingredient in manufacturing the drug Methampetamine (Meth).
After spending two months in prison she was fined about Sh1.2 million for her offence.