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Deport Games Stores Manager, Demand Women Groups
Different women organizations under the umbrella of Non-Governmental Organizations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) stormed the Lusaka Magistrate Court to protest against the Games Stores Manager Vincent Palan who was scheduled to appear in court for allegedly sexually harassing his two female workers.
Mr Palan who was arrested and charged for sexual harassment of his female employees appeared at the magistrate court but his case failed to take off because the docket was not in court.
The women groups who gathered at the main gate entrance displayed placards demanding for an end to sexual harassment against women and immediate deportation of Vincent Palan.
And Kwasha Mukwenu Women Group Chairperson Dorika Phiri said the law should take its course over the sexual harassment offenses levelled against Palan because women were suffering at the hands of their male superiors in working places.
Ms Phiri said it was not fair that women including young girls continued to be sexually abused by men without any recourse from the law.
She has also called for the deportation of Palan saying government should ensure that he goes back to his country.
“We want this man to go and government should see to it that he is deported,” she said.
Two Game Stores female employees Mukamuluti Mwila and Nasutu Munalula have accused Palan of sexual harassment in separate incidents where he touched them in inappropriate manner and verbally abused them after they refused to have sexual intercourse with him.
One of the workers Nasutu Munalula accused him of squeezing her buttocks and attempted to tear her underwear in an effort to touch her private parts.
Posted by Editor
on August 23, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Chief of Grief
August 23, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Pantu ni guy ati mufikoshe imwe ba stanyooko ba ma NGO’s aiyini??Mubakwisa palya ba tususaulako amatole na mamba yesu kanshi ati ‘chiwamina galu kuluma mbuzi’atase,QUASH that case finish!!VOETSEK!!!
Fr. William Mulenga
August 23, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Case in court, comment reserved.
tutu
August 23, 2014 at 2:32 pm
depot the id iot mwechilye,ngamwina zed ku india achita ifi kumwipaya palya penefye not nefyakuya ku court nangula chiposenifye mulibena kanene bachitombaule
zambian to the bone!
August 23, 2014 at 3:59 pm
Let the courts do their job. If he is deported, what next ? He gets away with it. Let the courts do what is best! What is deportation ? He will just go to another country or stay in SA and still continue his vice!
Gladys
August 24, 2014 at 1:38 am
Hi, I just want to add my input on Palan’s stories that’s going on. I’m a US naturalized citizen from Zambia. Last year in June when I was visiting Zambia I decided to work at Game Store. I witnessed Palan’s verbal abuse. I heard him calling his subordinates cockroaches and monkeys. Palan was a boss who managed his subordinates by intimidation. Employee’s at Game Store were scared of him like he was God. I have never seen people work under such conditions in my entire life like employees at Game Store under Palan. I had a lot of people approach me to speak on their behalf to walmart executives when I come to back to United States. I followed walmart open door policy by sening an email to the Human Resources Office (Nontobeko) after I come back to let her know about my experience and what I witnessed. I was expecting the bosses at the Home Office to do something or contact me about it. That’s a procedure when one uses an open door policy but I have not heard back from them up to now. If Palan is found guilt he should serve his jail term in Zambia before deported. He was thinking he was above the law. People like Palan does not need to be in Zambia or a manger. He has no respect for other people be woman or man. Palan was not just verbally abusive to women of Game Store he was to men too. I’m so ready to testify again him if called.
Toka Kari
August 24, 2014 at 6:50 am
The best to go with this case is first for him to face the law and if found guilt let him first serve the sentence in Zambian prisons and there after deport him. Let him experience life in our prison, he will truly repent when he comes out
KASONDE MWILA
August 24, 2014 at 11:32 am
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. Zambian women aorganizations are too opportunistic. Deporting someone is not a solution. Come up with proof that he indeed assaulted those women
Winter
August 24, 2014 at 7:34 pm
Some women decision makes us wonder why depot before justice run it’s course. Try that guy then depot him.
Miyoba
August 25, 2014 at 11:47 am
Let the system find him guilty, then let him do time in Zambia after that he can be deported.