Dennis Osadebe
BBC Information, Lusaka
Sista DUltimatum: This tale incorporates distressing main points.
A protest march has been held in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, in opposition to a contemporary spate of stories of guys raping kids.
Over the closing two months, Zambians had been stunned by means of a number of circumstances of kid rape, a few of which led to loss of life.
A number of the maximum dreadful studies used to be that of a father allegedly raping his seven-year-old daughter presen she used to be admitted to clinic for most cancers remedy.
There have additionally been studies of a five-year-old allegedly being raped by means of a gang of 4 males, presen some other father used to be jailed for raping and infecting his six-year-old with genital warts, a sexually transmitted problem.
Zambia’s Justice Minister Princess Kasune-Zulu has referred to as for the castration of kid rapists as an terminating measure to discourage perpetrators and give protection to kids from abuse.
“How low can we go as a nation? How low can we go as a society? What is happening is sickening. It is beyond laws now – it is up to us as Zambians to interrogate why our morals have decayed,” she lately instructed parliament.
Following the studies, civil public organisations, musicians, and people held a protest march on Thursday, calling for the federal government to amend the regulation to introduce harder punishments for kid rapists.
In a petition passed to Vice-President Mutale Nalumango, they demanded the regulation be modified in order that the ones accused of kid rape don’t seem to be granted bail.
In reaction, Nalumango mentioned the problem considerations everybody and that Zambians will have to rush a rise.
Sista DA musician who took phase within the protest march instructed the BBC that “we need to create a safe environment for our children”.
Daputsa Nkhata-Zulu, often referred to as Sista D, added that kid rapists must be castrated “for the safety of children and also to deprive them of the pride of manhood because they don’t deserve it.”
In simply the closing 3 months of 2024, Zambia recorded greater than 10,000 circumstances of gender-based violence (GBV) involving kids, in line with the Zambia Nationwide Broadcasting Company. Those have been most commonly within the capital, Lusaka.
Greater than 32,000 crowd won counselling for GBV closing yr, in line with the Zambia Police 2024 annual GBV information research.
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