NGOCC BACKS CALLS TO RELEASE KABANSHI ON HEALTH GROUNDS
THE Non-Governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) has backed calls for President Hakainde Hichilema to pardon Emerine Kabanshi on health grounds.
On Sunday, former Chifunabuli PF MP Ponde Mecha asked President Hichilema to pardon Emerine Kabanshi on compassionate and health grounds, saying it’s sad that she continues suffering in silence despite having a stroke.
Agreeing with Mecha in an interview, NGOCC Chairperson Beauty Katebe said Kabanshi needed to be given an opportunity to take care of her health.
“When it comes to pardoning of honourable Kabanshi, as NGOCC, we would be very glad in the sense that we’ve seen perpetrators of the worst GBV, someone has defiled a four year old girl and sentenced for 20 years”.
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Let the matter be tabled before prison authorities. They are the one’s who see the behaviour of an inmate on a daily basis and they are the ones who forward names for presidential pardon to the PS Home Affairs.
Bleating for sympathy on social media will not help because the court sentenced her in order to send a strong message to public officers who think they are above the law.
We talk of equality before the law at the same time we’re calling for some convicts to be given special treatment! Isn’t this being hypocritical. Emery Kabanshi was duly convicted after having been found guilty. She should therefore like any other convict serve her full sentence as per law required.
no more kabwalala leaders and Manomambulwa, the Presidential prerogative of mercy is supposed be the sanctuary of the President’s conscience on behalf of the people. Savage nations lack this sanctuary!!!
I thought that Kabanshi woman is one of those 700+ pardoned. Although I don’t stomach crime, this one I think on medical/health grounds should be pardoned. She already has a tag as a convict which she will take to the grave. Let the powers that be pardon her.
NGOs in Zambia are just a bunch of self serving hypocrites.
Read what the State House Spokesperson said.
This convicted Minister is not the only sick person in prison.
So why the noise? Do you as NGOs know how many terminally ill people in Prison? Do you know how many people have been in remand without trial aside from those that politicans have an interest in?
You are the same clowns that allowed Lungu to sign the Consitution with his “eyes closed” and today you want to speak up about a criminal you abused her position and stole from the vunerable while you pulsate that she so much good in her constituency. With stolen money? What a bunch of Pharisees. All talk with corrupt hearts who speak when they benefit from the noise they make….be gone you evil beings. Lest I sin.
I do feel for Emerine Kabanshi. A stroke is a debilitating illness. Matters of pardoning inmates are handled by the Parole Board and not State House. This being Zambia, had Emerine Kabanshi been jailed under the New Dawn, the narrative would have been that of targeting people from a certain region. Since she was jailed under the PF government, not even Sishuwa Sishuwa sees it that way.
What kind of a stupid NGO is this? They only see the plight of former, rich politicians but can’t say a word about all those countless poor women who have more serious medical issues than kabanshi but just because they are not know so no NGO pleads for them. Such NGOs should be de registered as they do not serve the purpose for which they were formed.