ZNMNGD CALLS ON THE POLICE TO ARREST MEN BEHIND THE OVER 2800 TEEN PREGNANCIES IN EASTERN PROVINCE
Sunday 18th February, 2024.
The Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development (ZNMNGD) is calling on the Inspector General of Police, Graphael Musamba to sanction a special operation in Eastern Province to arrest the more than 2900 men behind the 2946 teen pregnancies recorded in the province in the month of January 2024.
We call for this special operation because these teen pregnancies constitute defilement cases as according to statistics, one hundred and thirty three (133) involve girls below 15 years and Two Thousand Eighty Hundred and Thirteen (2813) between the ages of 15 to19 years have been impregnated within a one month period.
Eastern Province has recorded too many statistics regarding teen pregnancies and other forms of gender based violence cases with very little action being taken to bring those committing sexual atrocities to book.
For instance in 2022 Eastern province recorded 31,000 teen pregnancies and we believe that authorities should have by now put up interventions to prevent such occurrences.
The 2,946 teen pregnancies means that 2,946 men who are responsible should be rounded up through a special operations to face justice as they could be easily identified if the police work with the girls, teachers, the community and the health centres.
We believe that through this action the country will be sending a strong message to perpetrators of sexual violence that there will be no business as usual in dealing with sexual predators who are robbing the country of its precious resources of future leaders.
Two thousand Nine Hundred and forty six( 2,946) girls between the ages of 15 to 19 have been robbed of their childhood.
Nelson Banda
National Coordinator
Arresting may be a fire fighters solution Iam not against it but rather we needo understand the ethnographic, cultural and social economic factors and drivers of this pregnancy epidemic in that part and compare with other areas.
Then interventions can be designed to address the root causes. After that arrest perpetrators.
Be fair those ladies are not being chased by men to get pregnancy no , they agree to be serviced by those men,let us just be fair to men? How many men do you want to get arrested? find the place where you will be keeping those useless girls.
This is the only way we shall grow our population. There’s power in numbers. Let us not be deceived by these family planning methods they’ve introduced to us.
The sex was consensual in most of the cases. Just teach the girls that pulsating tool is not for immediate service. Educate them on how to handle their feelings at puberty because that is where pregnancy starts. The do get a very strong sexual drive fueled by the dirty stories from the useless married uneducated elderly women who married prematurely specifically for sex and security.
Kikikiki spot on.
Good observation but wrong advice. Most parents, especially mothers have failed in their responsibilities when it comes to nurturing these teenagers. They should be firm but loving when it comes to their young daughters. They ought to cage and reprimand. Most of these girls are set “free” soliciting money and other gadgets, in exchange of their bodies, hence roaming streets like mongrels on heat. The reasons behind you see all foxes, coyotes and wolves smell their scent from far.
Gee! This Page is full of misogynistic child abusers! How can anyone in their right mind put all blame on immature girls and their mothers? If you flash K20 in front of them they get confused.
Consensual sex? My! My! My! There is no consensual sex with an under-age! Its statutory rape and should be prosecuted. Some of you sound like you go after these little girls.