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Luo Calls For New Law AGAINST Sexual Offenders
Gender Minister Nkandu Luo has called on Government to develop a new law that will deter sexual offenders.
Professor Luo said sexual offences must be taken seriously and be treated with a sense of emergency because the victims were young people.
She said the Sexual Violence Bill would be extracted from the already existing pieces of legislation.
Prof Luo said the Bill would ensure that defilement and rape cases were not bailable at any cost as this led to the perpetrators not serving the required sentence and punishment.
She stipulated a period of three months in which the Bill could be implemented and become law so that women, girls and boy’s lives were protected as every woman was a potential candidate for defilement and rape.
Prof Luo said Zambia needed to punish sexual offenders differently, adding that defiling a child left a permanent mark and was as good as murdering the victim.
She said the ministry would not wait until a child was abused and take the offender to appear before a fast track court, but it would see to it that a law was put in place.
“2015 has been a sad year for the Gender Ministry. The records of child defilement and rape were the order of the day with most offenders going scot free but I want to assure you that 2016 would be a different year,” she said
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on December 20, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 20, 2015 at 3:47 pm
I have been saying for a long time that zambia has a defilement crisis. Meanwhile the pf idiots were busy insulting me when i mentioned this. We in upnd believe that our approach to this will be to create a think tank and institute a project to understand the origins of this sickness and to understand why people do it. We then would use these findings to forge the way forward through sensitazation projects, and even through different avenues such as the law. The pf is wreong to think that tougher punishment will deter such cases. The law is just a small part of the solution. This problem is deeper than it seems. Vote upnd
Broken Hill Man
December 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm
Give solutions not everyday insults to the ruling Party Brother NEZ. Be positive and provide solutions now because UPND will never rule this Country with HH as its head. Keep waiting and come 2016 you shall cry foul again. Analyze the voter registration pattern data produced so far. We have no opposition yet in Zambia and you are not giving better alternative to be frank, you are just aDevil’s agent with all those insults you shall pour on whoever gives you opposition. Good day the Newly Most Educated Zambian in Europe.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 21, 2015 at 12:07 am
You fool read my comment which has provided solutions and alternative. Am advising your dull government and here you are saying nyo nyo. What do you people surely want
emmanuel
December 21, 2015 at 8:54 am
Bushe why does the government takes too long to make the laws?It seems parliament is slow to pass such bills with re guard to child abuse and gender violence.In bemba ,they say “limbula isansa talilalimba imishila”meaning uproot the sturborn grass before its roots grow further.,Because of lack stiffer laws today,women are batterd and sexually offended.and young girls as little as eight years are defiled nearly everyday.Why? Coz nobody seems to be serious about this matter.IN ZAMBIA HALF OF POPULATION WILL BE INFECTED WITH HIV AIDS IF WE SEEM TO RELAX(LAW MAKERS)
Big Nose
December 21, 2015 at 12:26 pm
This ugly luo speaks as if she is in the oposition silly professor always dancing for uneducated pf carders .2016 vote UPND people with progressive I
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