Former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, Emmanuel Mwamba has strongly opposed proposed amendments to the penal code that threaten family values and the Christian standing of Zambia.
Mr. Mwamba said the proposed amendments were alarming because if passed they will allow men to have multiple marriages and will also remove the criminalization of abortions.
Mr. Mwamba said this would deviate Zambia from its well-respected standing on such matters.
Mr. Mwamba feared that the amendments would drive Zambia to a state of immorality and lack of respect for human life. Mr. Mwamba reiterated that abortions violate the right to life as life begins at conception and no one is entitled to take it or destroy it.
He said to allow wanton procurement of abortions without deterring measures such as the law, will turn Zambia into a state without respect to life.
He also expressed surprise that Government intends to allow men to be engaged in multiple marriages without regard to the Christian standing of the country.
The government has announced that it will table before Parliament amendments to Section 6 of the Penal Code which will among other provisions, remove the criminalization of abortions and bigamy.
Mr. Mwamba also urged Government to be cautious on the proposal to remove the death penalty as Zambians have always opposed its removal in the Chona, Mvunga, Mwanakatwe, and Mungomba Constitution Review Commissions.
The Zambia Law Development Commission(ZLDC) has proposed that the laws on bigamy and abortions be repealed. The proposals are contained in the review of the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code.
While statutory laws prohibit bigamy and polygamy, the arrangement co-exists with customary law which permits the act. Mr. Mwamba said the status quo should be allowed to exist to protect the sanctity of marriage and the Christian principles espoused in Zambia as a Christian Nation.
He said the UPND in Opposition, were accused that they would allow immorality and perversion such as promoting homosexuality and abortions if given state power, and this move will therefore prove those critics right with such amendments to the law.
Mr. Mwamba called on the Church to raise strong objections to the amendments and raise a lobby against the proposals.
This how they plan to slowly introduce gay rights . Zambians what have you done!? We warned you
Mr Mwamba, bigamy or polygamy is not a sin, IN FACT, Zam,bia needs to lehgalise this so that children and single mothers can be taken care of. Right now the biggest sin is married men sowing wild oats all over the place and refusing to be responsible for their offspring. The Bible has several examples of polygamists and they are never condemned. As for abortion, the law of Zambia already allows for it. Doctors have been performing abortions in Zambia all along. The problem is that many women have either died or been severely maimed through back street abortions. Is that want you want?
“Mr. Mwamba called on the Church to raise strong objections to the amendments and raise a lobby against the proposals.”
That’s Mwamba and PF they have absolutely nothing to offer if its not tribalism talk its about homosexuality …men who can afford it have been involved in multiple marriages for long time and why should you as man be worried about abortions…let the women decide on their own.
The Zambian penal code which includes laws on bigamy and homosexuality was enacted by the colonial powers. The penal code actually makes numerous references to 1933 and Zambia was not in existence then.
Its very strange to hear people say “proposed amendments to the penal code that threaten family values and the Christian standing of Zambia”
Both the Public Order Act and Penal Code were imposed on the natives by the British Colonialists.
IT SEEMS OPPRESSIVE COLONIAL LAWS ARE GOOD FOR ZAMBIAN CHRISTIAN VALUES.
That’s nonsensical to say the least.
Maybe ka mwamba likes boys………
*The New Penal Code*
Bigamy – is an offence which involves marrying another person while you are already in another marriage. You get jailed in Zambia! But under the proposed new Penal Code, that law will be abolished and instead the aggrieved parties should seek civil remedies. Equally, the offence of “fraudulent pretense of marriage” will be removed from our laws.
“No adult can reasonably be duped into marriage,” read the Report that proposes far reaching changes to the Zambian criminal justice system.
The process of amending the two laws – by the Zambia Law Development Commission- started in 2011 and finally the final product has been presented to the Minister of Justice.
It is a comprehensive review of the current law. The proposals tries to codify all criminal law…
A foo.l has given in to what the international community wants! You are waste than Judas Iscariot..
Multiple choice question.
Is he:
A) A lawyer
B) A priest
C) A loudmouth
Under Present laws can you marry two three wives?
Iwe chi troll #1 Kaizar Zero ,HH is a devout Christian so take your gay agenda to the slums of Tower Hamlet or to your homeground Misisi slums.
Kabisa – He proudly calls himself a former civil servant and a PF cadre at the same time …comes to post articles about professionalism.
22,000 divorces in one year! Why not outlaw divorce Mr Mwamba?
I support Mwamba on this one. Legalizing abortion is giving in to population control Western eugenicists, who keep arguing that Africa has way too many people, and the population needs to be drastically reduced. And also the killing of innocent babies is satanic, flies in the face of Christian values. All you who want to be polygamists, go back to the villages and practice it there. No gay agenda in Zambia, as we’re a Christian nation. If you want to practice it, go to some Western country that allows it. If UPND imposes these decadent Western values on the Zambian people, lest assured they will a one term party. They’ll get voted out in 2026.
A Christian is not one that says they are but one that does in keeping with God’s Word. A Satanist is classified the same way. God’s word says though shalt not kill, abortion is killing. The Bible says the union of marriage is between a Man and a wife. When we embraced Christianity our forefathers gave up polygamy in keeping with the new values of Christianity ….. Continued in next comment.
Continued… Our new society under Christian values have allowed our women to be empowered and not be considered inferior to men, so if we say men can marry multiple women why can’t women do the same thing going by a satanic reasoning? and it will follow as it has in the western world why can’t men marry men and women marry women. Do not temper with the word of God or else your society will soon become perverse and satanic like the Western nations continued in next comment…..
Continued from last comment… And also if you say you are going to legalize abortion, from what stage will you say the fetus can be killed? even in the west this has become decisive and unclear with politicians saying it can be done up to six months and a Dr is not obliged to help the baby even then if it is alive because it had been aborted. Are these not acts in keeping with Satanists even though they masquerade as Christians? Continued…
Continued… The Bible says thatSatan Masquerades as an Angel of light, meaning he presents himself to men as a one that works for God for good, it goes on to say what more his followers? That’s why we now have witchdoctor s and so called seers masquerading as pastors and priests. Always quiet on issues of God but vocal in politics even allowing themselves to be placed on boards of companies. The Bible says these will be judged and punished more severely because they led Gods people astray…. Continued
…so my fellow Zambians, let us pray that God removes the scepter of wickdeness from our land allotted to us as s Christian nation. And remember a Christian is not one who says he is but one who does the will of our the Father of Jesus Christ. A Satanist is one that does what is in keeping with the works of their Master that serpent referred to as the Devil and Satan the enenybof God and Christ. By this you will identify them as the Bible says, you will know them by their fruit.
Emmanuel Mwamba is a notorious serial sex pest and this is way too rich for even this vicious tribal bigot to vomit! He can go and marry Nkandu Lunyokolile with her hanging gardens of Babylon pounds of flesh on her arms! These NaBwalyan Zinjanthropan apes suck!
If Mwamba has no power to fu#ck, aye kwa Katanga kwa buKasai habo yena bayomu katela mubafu ni mupondopondo kuyo kiisa mukokoto wahae, kanamunungu tuna ka lilete la mutuba kani.
We will remove the death penalty after we hang Emmanuel Mwamba for strangling KaShortie FTJ to death. Kuunya bebele ka mambala number 1 wena.
For you who are against Polygamy, do you know that there are generally more women than men (57:43%)? So who will marry these women that cannot find a husband mainly due to nature?
The law on polygamy has been there but we want structured in such a way that you can marry second or filth woman without losing property to any of them since now it is no longer outlaw. The current law on marriage favours woman and married ones are behaving stupidly so that they can remain wealth from the family.