The Non Governmental Organisations’ Coordinating Council-NGOCC- is angered by the recent stripping of girls and women in Kitwe on the Copperbelt.
On Thursday some overzealous street vendors harassed women who they thought were not properly dressed and stripped a young woman naked for alleged indecent dressing.
NGOCC Board Chairperson, Beatrice Grillo is certain that the attacks on girls and women are a confirmation that their rights and freedoms are under serious threat in Zambia
Ms. Grillo has appealed to the Zambia police Service to ensure that stripping of girls and women is immediately curtailed before it spreads to other towns.
On the fateful day the vendors trading on Matuka Avenue near Shoprite harassed and stripped the young woman naked for wearing leggings and a short top, accusing her of being indecently dressed.
The increase in street vending in Kitwe, has raised many complaints from the public such as increased indiscriminate disposal of garbage, pick-pocketing and overcrowding.
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CHELSEA
March 23, 2012 at 9:36 am
NGOCC,you are missing a point madame go back to times before your organization was formed and women dressed decently not at any time did stripping them naked happened,but now that you came into existence we expected you when fighting for equality women will also be trained to maintain their decent dressing other than parading themselves naked it is a sin before God.Lets teacher our women to dress decently or correctly in the eyes of any man on earth or heaven.
CHUCHU
March 23, 2012 at 9:37 am
@ shumba ine nkwetefye iyakwa Dora na nyamasoya
ann shumba
March 23, 2012 at 9:39 am
pipo keep it up we shud teach them,who ever put on short stirts and leave her g-string,batacoz out to attract men shud be striped so that she can dispose her nekediness nicely.we are tired of seing those bad stuffs.if you want to put on something short then make sure you are in your home where your mother and father will be happy watching your under waer not in public.strip them off period
BarotseLander
March 23, 2012 at 9:44 am
Are there going to be naked BEMBA gals?Twalya again.Nemba yalibelela.
John Chinena
March 23, 2012 at 10:00 am
Leave the women alone pleaaaaaase!!! Those in support of the stripping just want to see more of the ladies nakedness. Not too long ago, actually in living memory, our ladies used to walk around with a small piece of cloth enough to hide only the groin. Men were not bothered at all. But these days something has gone terribly wrong with our feelings of lust.
Hakehe
March 23, 2012 at 10:30 am
A man is a lion by nature when an opportunity arise it bites and eat the prey. A man by nature is attracted to an opposite sex so as women you have to do everything to protect yourselves by way of good dressing practice. You NGOCC are advocates of bad dressing styles on the streets.You allow women and girls to dress the way they want in leggings the whole body exposed making difficult for some men resist temptation.
The stripping off some women by street vendors is an expressing of disgust in the dressing style of your women you protect. So go back to the drawing board and address the root cause rather than fighting the results-smoke
Modern
March 23, 2012 at 10:49 am
Even babies, animals and birds are being raped- please control your selves.
Pulamasaka
March 23, 2012 at 10:54 am
let the dress properly ala..why are you promoting nakedness and yet you are against gayism..?
vipaz
March 23, 2012 at 12:42 pm
let the gvt dclare nakedness so that these stripin stops bcoz men wil know that its by law of man not of God. human rights is pure satanic bliv me u. honestly r u teling me that God is hapy in with such nosense, its only the devil who finds pleasure in such and thoz doin it are devil worshpers.
Mpanga ya sapa umwenda abakalabene
March 23, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Namugala, Dora & all MMD women, now there is a reason to match naked for! All Zambian women should match naked to protest the stripping of women naked by Kaponyas in Kitwe, while a female inspector general is in office! After all, when you undress or bare the nakedness of one woman, you have undressed even your mother! Atase at ubwamba bulakalipa, ukabufunde nangu uleende na cool box na menshi mo ayatalala nga bwaima ukwabula amano wabutuma mo. Mwine mushi tabepa muleikotolola bamumbwe!
sniper the philosopher
March 23, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Please let us not try to promote stupidity in our country. W ho told you that thier rights are under real threat in our country, tha’s not true. You are the same people promoting immorality in this country. We can not tolerate such nonsense. I urge the call boys to continue with the same spirit. May god help us.
chizo
March 23, 2012 at 3:41 pm
The stories that Tufweko publish really worry me. It seems Zambia is going backward instead of forwards and the problem is that it satrts from our very own president. I read Tufweko to get some news on what is happening back home but all I read is about degenerates forever insulting and supporting something as acient and dull as stripping a woman . And they are some who are trying to justify it it amazing at the level of ubututu.
Mpanga ya sapa umwenda abakalabene
March 23, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Sniper philosopher, philosopher wamafi! You should be civilised enough you nincoompop to understand that stripping of women by opinionated bafikala ba kaponya is not morally right! How can doing a wrong to someone already in the wrong be right? Indeed, may your small god help you from your satanic ignorance!
Richard Kantonga
March 23, 2012 at 3:57 pm
NGOCC you are not helping women by supporting indicent dressing ,call a spade a spade,instead help them to dress in respectable manner
the fish
March 23, 2012 at 4:09 pm
that’s the way it is coz its to mach.
Danny fan
March 23, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Bravo! NGOCC! Everyone is free to wear what they choose. No kaponya has a right to strip anyone. If someone is indecently dressed then law enforcement officers should take charge. We need the rule of law to be effective.
Janet c
March 23, 2012 at 8:26 pm
You men supporting stripping it will be your daughters tomorrow who are stripped – you cant control what your daughter wears. I wonder if you will make the same comments then??
Janet c
March 23, 2012 at 8:27 pm
This stripping is now history – just as banning women from owning property is history. So gear yourselves to see more ‘flesh’ on the streets of zambia you selfish e surely lost your so-called power over women – wawona manje wayamba ku lila!!!
Janet c
March 23, 2012 at 8:35 pm
The appointment of a female police IG is the nail in the coffin for this nonsense of stripping – zambian men you are becoming totally irrelevant and of no use to zambian society – na mupwa sana ma guys – totally finnished to a point where you want to hang on to your so-called power to control what a human being wears – a very BIG shame on all of you
Chisotwe Wa Nsaishi
March 23, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Striping of women is totally wrong and should be condemned. Having said that, bakashana we should be wary of how we dress. Different attires have different places and occassions. When you were leggings the decent thing, (fashionable even), is to wear a long top which covers fyonse ifituntumene! Beauty does not lie in exposing ourselves! Dressing is not only about covering our the colour of our skins but also the contours of our bodies. Despite being a woman, I feel embarrassed when I see women wearing leggings with short tops, especially fat ones, because fyonse filadindika. I ask myself what the aim of that kind of dressing is.
umuntu
March 24, 2012 at 12:28 am
wht iz bd abt th all thng iz tht thre sme women who r in surpot of tht rubish.mwebanakashi mwe balesapota ukufwala half nakd,bushe muli batuntulu?sory 4u cz i gues u dnt evn kno God.nowanda u r called ”abana”kashi.
ana shumba R4M
March 24, 2012 at 6:46 am
FOOLISH NGO, WALKING NAKED IS A RIGHT?
PIKE
March 24, 2012 at 8:07 am
COPALA TEACH THEM A DRESSING CODE.
chola
March 24, 2012 at 10:08 am
a woman is a blessing from God because we were made and not created, why are we dressing as if we are the only people on earth our body were made for your one and only one to see it and not to expose for every man to see it. put on your legings with a long top to cover your beneth, our body are very special for God’s sake. it not ok to be striped. I think its for us women to control the all situation. let us know how to dress, ukufyala kusuma sana nomba tulefyala according na situation bwino bwino not ubwamba bwesu bulenomeka panse.
MEME
March 24, 2012 at 5:35 pm
MADAM NGOCC CHAIR PLIZ AS YOU GET ANGRY SEE TO IT THAT OUR SISTERS ARE ALSO TAUGHT ON WHAT KIND OF DRESSING IS FOR THE PUBLIC.THE PROBLEM IN AFRICA/ZAMBIA IS THAT WHEN WE SEE OUR WESTERN COUNTERPARTS ON STAGE IN TINY CLOTHINGS, WE GET IT AS FASHION FOGETING THAT IT WAS MEANT FOR THE STAGE,ITS STAGE COSTUME. WE NEED DESCENCE IN DRESSING AND I THINK IT MIGHT EVEN HELP US TO CUB SOME OF THE WOMEN ISSUES GOING AROUND IN OUR CALLED CHRISTIAN NATION. I SUPPORT THE GENTLEMEN FOR MAKING THE GIRL LEARN HER LESSON IN A HARD WAY-IN FACT THE BIBLE SAY THAT SOME PEOPLE LEARN THINGS IN A HARD WAY. LETS REMIND PARENTS TO TALK TO THEIR CHILDREN AND HELP THEM BE LIKE YOU BECAUSE IF YOU JUST GET ANGRY TODAY BECAUSE THEY WERE STRIPED AND NOT TELLING THEM THAT ITS NOT RIGHT TO HAVE SOMETHING YOU MAY USE FOR A NIGHT WEAR OR INDOOR WEAR IN THE PUBLIC.
WE NEED MORALS IN OUR YOUNG LADIES.THEY NEED TO BE TAUGHT LIMITS.END LINES MUST BE KNOWN.BE REALISTIC AS YOU MAKE YOUR ARGUMENTS.
THANK YOU