BALLY STILL WANTS TO LEGALISE GAY RIGHTS
……he is under pressure from liberal organizations to do so – Nakacinda
LUSAKA, Saturday, November 13, 2021 (SMART EAGLES)
OPPOSITION Patriotic Front (PF) Member of the Central Committee (MCC) in charge of Information and Publicity Hon. Raphael Nakacinda has alleged that President Hakainde Hichilema is under pressure from liberal organizations to legalise gay rights in the country.
Speaking when he addressed the media in Lusaka today, Hon Nakacinda charged that the Head of State is under pressure from the said organisations to see to it that gay rights are legalized following his promise to them prior to the 12 August elections.
The PF MCC accused President Hichilema of resorting to go to the Constitutional Court through a member of his United Party for National Development (UPND) to try and change the law.
“Apparently, the President is under pressure from such organisations some of whom were pressurising just a few days ago. In that regard I, arising from a comment he made when he was in Monze…..apparently, this time around they have resorted because of the fact that it is proving very difficult, to have the sits won by Patriotic Front to be nullified, because as it were, all those concocted, tramped up allegations against our MPs, have not been able to be sustained in the courts of law” he said.
“Now they have resorted to go to the constitutional court through a member of UPND to try and change the law from the bench. The only arm of government that is responsible for enacting laws is the national assembly. But they want to use the back door by inviting the court to change from the bench, which the court have found upon for many years in time passed.”
Hon Nakacinda further stated that there is a matter which “unfortunately the scheme was to have a UPND member petition the court” to look at the electoral system act and the electoral process act and try and amend it so that they can then have seats nullified at will, even just by a small incident that may have happened during campaigns.
He disclosed that the said scheme is meant to try and build numbers so that the issues of gays and lesbianism could find their way on the flow of the house with numbers that have been built on the side of UPND.
MCC Nakacinda however called on the courts to protect the values of the rule of law.
And with regards to President Hichilema’s recent statement were he exonerated his party from being pro-LGBTQ, Hon Nakacinda said “unfortunately,” the President has proven to have capacity to say one thing in the morning and come and reject “that very thing that he said at 10:00 hours and come and change at 12:00 hours and come and change when he is going to bed, and we don’t even know what he dreams about in the night and wakes up in the morning and say something else.”