The number of defilement cases in Lusaka district has drastically reduced due to the vigorous sensitization programmes embarked on by the Zambia Police Victim Support Unity (VSU) and other NGOs in communities.
Defilement cases have dropped from 67 to only two during the period from April 1st to June 30th, 2008.
Social Sector Sub Committee Chairperson, Dr Charles Mwape disclosed this during the second quarter District Development Coordinating Committee (DDCC) meeting held at Lusaka City Council Committee Room today.
Dr. Mwape also disclosed that under the same period under review, no children were adopted since the lifting of the adoption suspension by the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services.
He added that the provincial and districts offices have since drawn a programme to inspect 41 children homes in the district.
And Lusaka City Council Town Clerk, Timothy Hakuyu has expressed concern at the failure by some development committees in the district to utilized funds allocated for developmental projects.
Mr. Hakuyu said delay in utilizing the funds risk the funds being remitted to the national treasury hence defeating the purpose for which the funds were released to benefit the general public.
He urged the members to take DDCC meetings seriously if the district is to develop.
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Good news.
Its goodnews for the zambian child!
thats what we should be hearing and we call that progress.goodnews.
From 67 to 2? That splendid, but add mandatory castration of the perpetrators to the sensitization programme equation, and defilement will be magically relegated to the archives or history books in Zambia. In other words, defilement would easily go the way of the dodo (be extinct). So castration is the way to go folks, because fear of losing one’s willy is every man’s nightmare. Believe me, I know so coz I’m one.
ok.what about northern province?ili bad kulya ka!
They better keep their libidos in check. Or we will recommend to the Govt that fish or any other high protein food is removed from their diet.
(Defilement cases have dropped from 67 to only two during the period from April 1st to June 30th, 2008).I think the lessons given to the ladies by ZP asking them to bite tongues when kissing is working.
i would do worse,,bit his tongue off ,, as he screems around i leta bit off his pipe.. can you imagine someone placing his thing on a 2 year old or rather feed his thing to a baby to suck.. like i heard some garden boy did.. anso…
The biggest problem here is that most of the victims are defiled by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them, like their own fathers. I think this should strickly be put into check…..in other words, very few are reporting such cases.