-The National Initiative for Citizen Awareness (NICA) has called on the Ministry of Home Affairs to increase Police presence in the country to effectively combat defilement cases.
NICA President Kelvin Sampa said in a Press Statement to ZANIS today that the Victim Support Unit in the Police Service should be adequately equipped with transport and other logistics in order to track down sexual abuse cases.
Mr. Sampa said there are only 133 police stations in the country’s 72 districts which makes it difficult for the law enforcement officers to follow up cases committed in distant places.
He said despite civil society’s efforts in the fight against defilement, the cases have continued to escalate in Lusaka and other parts of the country.
He expressed concern that out of the 865 defilement cases as at 2006, only 238 were convicted and the remaining were withdrawn.
Mr. Sampa urged the legislature and the national constitution conference to enact laws that will provide for the arrest of people who withdraw defilement cases.
He also appealed to the community, government and civil society to be involved in the fight against defilement.
Police Presence? C’mon! These issues are to do with poverty, ignorance and morality and not the number of police officers. I don’t get the logic!
You say we need more awareness about HIV/AIDS (Because in most cases defilers think they will get cured or rich if they sleep withkids), address the poverty situation, reduce prostitution, create wealth and get rid of those misleading traditional doctors (tell them to satr farming)… C’mom guys!!!
The rates are alarming though 865 defilement cases as at 2006, thats enough to get everybody worried!!!! Let Deal with it!
IAEA approve rules to guide Zambia’s uranium mining
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has approved regulations to guide Zambia’s uranium mining activities, Zambian Mines Minister Kalombo Mwansa said.The regulations encompass the proposed mining, milling and transportation of uranium and other radioactive minerals in the country, he said in the Southern province of the country.Mwansa said Friday this when he visited the Muntanga uranium exploration site under Omega Corporation Minerals Limited of Australia in Siavonga in the province.The minister said his ministry will begin the issuance of uranium mining licences to prospecting companies in June this year.
There is need to promote the mining of uranium in view of the energy crisis in the country, as uranium can be used as a source of energy in the absence of hydropower, said the minister.Omega Corporation Minerals Limited Country Manager Roger Staley said his company is expected to produce its first uranium by August 2011. It has taken note of the environmental concerns raised over the mining of uranium.
Strict measures have been put in place to minimize risks emanating from uranium mining, he said.
Staley said about 600 families will have to be displaced to pave way for mining activities in the area.
Every one knows that the police always come late if they come at all. I agree with #1 that other measures need to be employed to eradicate this cancerous misconduct that has befallen our nation.
The police ought to be deployed for crime scenes,kitwe is returning to its old vomit,on thursday last week police brought in shot robbers at kitwe central hosipital,though others escaped,these animals raided a clinic and undressed the nurses to rape them,thank God the police were informed and came on time and started exchanging fire.Where are we heading to,trustly we aint safe no more,may the govt quickly do something by stiffening the law to curb these animals,bring back MUKOBEKO please before we are exterminated
In as much as we can appreciate the role of Civil Society we need to have credible people and organisation involved. While appreciating the issue raised by Kelvine Sampa, NICE is a one man organisation without any tangable programmes apart from issuing press statements and attending workshops. Is it not Kelvine Sampa who was once arrested in connection with hot Cars and a former singer of UNIP campaign songs around 1990-91 now he is close to Maureen Mwanawasa’s MMCI. Why is Zambian Civil Society not credible instead we have Chaps like Mike Zulu, Afred Zulu, Edwin Lifekelo, Ngande Mwanjiiti,Kelvine Sampa.
Stick to the topic ladies and gentlemen.
Just transfer officers from chipata to the copperbelt because theres not much crime in the province of work & joy in unity, cops only get paid for nothing at all!
Police presence? what if it the police defiling children?
Sampa,I believe the problem requires alot of psychological education to the adults that we have today.Make sure your kids dress appropriately and should beahve not like chiks ready for slaughter!Defilement can be curbed even within our families..it doesn’t call the for the entire police no!
only 1 and 11 sounds real, some of you pipo really go off the road pliz follow the heading for the issue to be intresting, why do you bring uranium when the issue is abt defilement is it not crazy?
hey dont stray from the topic you are making the reading boring stick to the subject.
i concur there is no connection with defillers and less cops educate the masses and eleviate poverty, tell the children to dress decently but i doubt coz most of these cases are happening in the villges where people dress decently.
Police presence to curb difilement cases! Does that guy understands what he is talking about?
why is # 2,3,4 (so called Zambian) talking about mining??? that is totally out of topic. wrong adress!! please lets stick to the topic and find sound solutions to the problem. it all lies in the psychological well being and attitudes of people.
I think public awareness thru TV, posters and Radio programs is needed to raise to bring about positive consious on this issue. Remember that we are coming from a culture and tradition which regards a girl mature enough to go thru initiation ceremony and thereafter marriage, simply because she has reached puberty! Our traditions which allowed teenage girls to marry were wrong and are still practiced in the villages! One would be shocked to learn about the age at which our parents, grandparent got married. We need a lot of public awareness and education to change these traditions. Formal education for girls has made a lot of improvement already, now we need public awareness. Let us all tell!
If anything Policemen and politicians are the worst defilers in this country. They are not even ashamed of using public institutions like parliament motel and police stations to slake their pathetic elemental hungers. Look at that Hindley fool, its MMD policy to rape and defile, they should all be castrated to save socienty from any further mischief, start with that Lenje/Lamba donkey called Shakafuswa.
I think public awareness thru TV, posters and Radio programs is needed to bring about positive behaviour on this issue. Remember that we are coming from a culture and tradition which regards a girl mature enough to go thru initiation ceremony and thereafter marriage, simply because she has reached puberty! Our traditions which allowed teenage girls to marry were wrong and are still practiced in the villages! One would be shocked to learn about the age at which our parents, grandparent got married. We need a lot of public awareness and education to change these traditions. Formal education for girls has made a lot of improvement already, now we need persistent public awareness.
Chipo was nearly defiled near longacres while policemen in locality did nothing. Bane kwena presence of ZP has nothing to do with defilement rate even cops are part of statistic. Come on govt, use your head to think and stop stammering…shaa, atense mukwai!
Why defilement cases are more in SOUTHERN PROVINCE ?
This is a stupid demand. You don’t need more policemen/women on the streets to stop or reduce Defilement.This is moral and behavioral matter requiring social and economic intervention.
Sex is on the lower portion of the Maslow Chart, therefore it need to be addressed just like other basic needs. Educate the people to desist from this bad social problem and punish them heavily especially the repeat offenders.
ka Joze,you don’t have the facts right young boy!defilement cases are more rampant and growing at an alarming level in northern province.go to CSO and some NGOs will provide data for you.
women have been raped at the police central station in LSK, there used to be a mattress in the building where the abuse took place, the police who used to arrest women for loitering at night would take them to the station where they would be slapped by women officers and gang raped by the male officers.
Most of the ZP missuse their power of authority, just because they are armed Zedians in uniform, does not make them better people!
Question is, why are defilements on the rise? Why, why, why? Is this a new development or is it something that has always been there but did not receive much attention? Would be interesting to hear from the menfolk as to what leads to this “abominable” act.
But why are the traditional doctors who prescribe sleeping with innocent children as cure for AIDS left scort free? Can someone please tell me? I have never heard of one being arrested. Arresting just one of them can save 100 victims.
Number 1 is spot on.How does the police presence stop it. Stiffen sentences and introduced a sex offenders register as well
When were were growing up in a ngoni family. there was strict segregation between the males and females in the house who were not married to each other.The Girls bedroom was out of bounds for us the boys and the girls were not permitted to enter our bedroom .The boys could play as far as possible and even return home around 1800 while the girls would only be permitted within the premises of the house and school.Adult male relative would always eat separately from the females in the house.Dressing for the ladies was severely censored. they were not permitted to wear trousaers or tight fitting clothes. When at home they would always were Chitenges. At least that ensured that a platform for
for misbehaving was severly restricted. When my father was driving my sisters to school they always sat in the back seat while I then a small boy would sit in the front seat. At the time we thought this was backwardness but it was a very good recipe for us to grow up respect sex and knowing that it’s place was only in a matrimonial bedroom. It does not require police offices to stem this avalanche of defilements it simply requires us within families to protect our girl children through proper dressing and controlled contact between males and females.Afterall when it comes to us it is the animal instinct which takes over….
Ba Joze # 20 waitaya.Defilement cases r more rampant in Northern province according to latest figures.Maybe the u r refering to 1964 records
Laws, Laws, Laws! Thats all there’s to it. Enact laws that carry stiff and lengthy jail time and prohibitive penalties as a deterrant. Enforce the laws!
Weh you a chat ’bout? De people dem need spiritual healing. Laws can’t change no one.