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Pregnancies among pupils worry authorities

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School authorities at Ntambu High School in Mwinilunga District, in North Western Province have expressed grave concern at the high rate of pregnancies among school pupils at the school.

Ntambu High School head teacher Aron Mbuzi says the number of school drop outs at the school due to pregnancy is alarming.

Mr. Mbuzi was speaking when provincial minister Kenneth Chipungu called on him during his continued tour of the area.

He disclosed that more than 35 pupils last year dropped out of school due to pregnancies.

Mr. Mbuzi attributed the scenario to lack of boarding facilitates at the school which has forced pupils from distant places to rent houses in nearby villages.

He pointed out that this has made the girl-child vulnerable to casual and illicit sex.

Mr. Mbuzi said construction of boarding facilities at the school would greatly help to put a stop to causal and illicit sex which has resulted in the present scenario.

Meanwhile, Mr. Mbuzi has attributed the low pass rate at the school to lack of commitment to duty by some teachers who previously manned the school.

He added that lack of teaching aids and other school materials also contributed to the low pass rate at the school.

And North Western Province Minister Kenneth Chipungu challenged the school to improve the pass rate.

He said government is committed to providing the necessary prerequisites to better the pass rate at the school.

39 COMMENTS

  1. Little girls stop showing your asses to men,a man will do what he gotta to do anytime he sees a leg.school is number one,thats your life.

  2. One would expect educated school girls to know the inportance of safe sex and therefore insist on using a condom. Or do Zambian girls ride too wild and puncture the rubber everytime?

  3. introduce sex education to pupils in grades six and seven. kids born in the 1990’s mature early? during my time in upper primary we had men and women in our class, but we had less cases of pregancies? net ballers had big bursts…not to mention repeaters? some of them even dated the single male teachers we had at our school (chilenje B and bayuni primary). Olipa was the same age as my mom? she dated our grade six teacher and a soldier from arakan barracks. grade six…imagine?

  4. Didn’t Moleen not enjoy herself when she was an unza law student working for levy? All female students are driven to sex by poor economic circumstances. Do not blame men only but also the poor government economic policies that lead to massive unemployment across the nation.

  5. Authorities only get worried and the story ends!

    Amafumo tayapwe and so is the massive sex on bakasukulu coz the authorities who could have done something about it are also busy hammering very kasukulu’s

  6. Sad news. Girls, please, girls. learn some leg managemnet skills. This is serious. Sin is sin. the wages of sin are still the same.

  7. iyo nichimo ikulu ngako!anywebo nobazyali,ncibi kuzyala biyo bana without support!mwebafyashi,mwilafyala fye!
    legs management at a tender age would do!abstain bafana!!

  8. I cannot imagine having sex with a rural woman … but then, who would take you seriously with a surname like Mbuzi?

  9. sex is every where…dont teach our young to abstain…teach them to understand and to know the difference. “when the child is ready to learn, the teacher appears” humans are never to young to learn nor too old to learn…we always learning till the day we die. teach from the youngest age possible

  10. What is the problem, people get pregnant and stioo go back to scool it is no longer an expellable offence when you get pregnant. So what is the issue. Number 14 indeed you are a struggling comedian and you sense of humour is sickening if the intention was to make people laugh i think you missed the point. Sex is sex irrespective of who you have it with, there is nothing wrong with rural women as a matter of fact they could be more entertaining than most so called urban women who just specialise in blow jobs than the real thing.

  11. # 16.The situ at Ntambu High School calls for a relook especially Provincial head(policy level).35 kids out of school in one year calls for an inquiry. It is scandalous for a nation to ignore dropout levels of this magnitude especially by one gender.Head teacher must be commended for bringing out the issue.This matter has reproductive health and social-economic implications.Its’ not about kids with kids getting back 2 school.We nid to prevent these pregs.In this age of HIV/AIDS we can’nt joke about this issue.These kids are vulnerable,poor and need yours and my protection.

  12. If one of these kids was yours’ i doubt it you would joke about it.This is what sets us apart from nations which focus on achieving set goals.We do not see 35 girls dropping out from one school in one year as an issue with an impact on the future of a child, a family and nation as a whole.Mind you this is just one school.If some opinions here are representative of the average blogger and potencial leader, I am sad.

  13. 35girls from 1 sch is just too much, what abt at national level? apart from pregnancies how many have been infected with HIV and other STIs? we don’t know what these girls do or end up with at the end of the day, some do ilegal abortions predisposing them to social,physical and psychological complications which might toment them for the rest of their life as these acts are carried out by those unskilled old ladies in our communities, some commit suicide before you even note that they are pregnant. Youths always experiment when it comes to sex they want to try it all, diff positions so that they have a story to tell to peers but they end up with gravid

  14. Due to actions they take when in this desperate situation our girls end up with deadly complications and an increase in dumping babies, ophans and street kids, child headed households, HIV/AIDS and related STIs,poverty, illiteracy and unemployment.
    Lets advocate on the issue of making abortion legal to lessen on some of these complications and losing our beultiful girls since the act will be done in a condusive environment and by skilled health workers.

  15. Waahpen? Mi understan di young gals dem like mangoes. Dem taste better when dem just turn ripe, if you wait too long, dem nuh sweet again! That is why all big men after dem like crazy…

  16. #22, you’re still al ong way off knowing these things. You don’t know that raw mango goes well with salt? Why wait until it is ready to be plucked? As they say in parliament, Hammer!!

  17. #22.You got erectile dysfunction and you also are likely prone to premature ejcaulation and hence your desire to ‘hammer’ unripe children.You are a ‘paedophile’, a criminal and an embecile. If you can’t hold an erection in front of a grown woman,try wanking- brainless.You are the *****s sleeping with 2 yr olds and you’re proud.And Lusaka times keep this matter on a little longer.

  18. it just shows how high immorality is in zambia despite been declared a christiian nation,

  19. #24 How you fi sey dat?! Me never mention no age group in my statement. Comparing gal pickney to mangoes have nuttin to do with paedophile! Weh you know ’bout mi ding-a-ling, eh? Me satisfy nuff woman over 18 already! Watch it, bwana!

  20. # 5, my where were you when your English teacher was teaching about punctuations? How about going back to those text books justy to be up to date, eh?

  21. These Kids of nowadays are dishing out their bodies like crazy and thats a fact! I dont think its because of economic gains all the time, but for personal satisfactions. Some do it in order for a guy to take them to a night club just to dance and brag to their friends afterwards. It may sound stupid and very childish but its happenning.

    These kids in my opinion are just spoiled brats who think they have come of age.

    Parents plz closely monitor your children!!!

  22. The moral decay of zambian society goes across the board, top to bottom. If its not grown men masquerading as MPs turning parliament motel into a brothel its some old man banging his daughter or some rapist defiling minors.The apple does not fall far from the apple tree and these poor girls are only a fraction of the perversely decadent moral fabric that points all the way to Leadership in lusaka and is embedded in the fragile socio-economic envronment in which they are brought up.Its time we get a leader who will shake the nation to life and infuse morality in our nation.

  23. I see these girls every day in Nchez Nkole and some times ‘some’ ministers, MP, Managers, Directors, teachers, doctors, pastors, tv personalities and DJs holding them

  24. #22 BUN DEM DREAD. Avoid going on the net when you have been smoking crack cos thats not just Ganja you reek of. Its obvious you wouldnt see the difference between your sister and her friends because they would all be just as sweet as mangoes to you. And guess what, just like mangoes, we will come and slice off that crack induced undisciplined pedophallic of yours with a sharp knife.Then you will learn how these young girl-child victims feel when their lives are rudely interrupted with unwanted pregnancies by predators like yourself.

  25. I think that poverty plays a major role in child protitution. Given the high levels of orphans as a result of the dreaded pandemic in the mother land, it’s no wonder young girls turn to selling their bodies to make ends meet. The leadership doesn’t make it easier. How do explain a deputy Finance Minister who condons the shenanigans at the parliament motel? This guy even has the audacity of saying he was under the influence when he uttered the gabbage. How do expect such a person to run the economy when half the time he is in such a stupor he can’t hear himself think? Stupid ***** as KK would put it..
    I think that true freedom only comes with economic emancipation.

  26. We can do all the talking, bottom line is, if that girl has no where to turn to put food on the table for her siblings, society is not giving her to many choices!! Sad, but true.

  27. We can do all the talking, bottom line is, if that girl has no where to turn to put food on the table for her siblings, society is not giving her too many choices!! Sad, but true.

  28. And we claim that we have a caring Government, once their children are satisfied then to then it means they are good leaders

  29. And we claim that we have a caring Government, once their children are satisfied then to them it means they are good leaders

  30. # pupil, you tink you can scare me, eh? You likkle bit a bwoy weh just come outta diaper. Yah can’t even reach Bobo Hill, the Rastaman Camp, becah man go chop off yu head like dawg! A nuh crack inna mi head bwoy, man a born Ganja man fe real!
    Me tell it to #24 True Muntu already an’ me go tell you again: ME IS NOT A PEDOPHILE! Y’ unarstaan? Forget de mango joke, me was jus’ tryin’ to mek you laugh.

  31. Shame on Zambia for becoming such a nation without morals. There is too much money worshipping by all, top, down.

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