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Pardoning Of Kanene Is A mockery To Zambia’s fight Against Defilement – OYV

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General Kanene performing in prison
Operation Young Vote executive director Guess Nyirenda says the pardoning of musician Clifford Dimba is a mockery to Zambia’s fight against defilement.
And NGOCC executive director Engwase Mwale says the move taken by President Lungu to free Dimba, who is popularly known as General Kanene, is an embarrassment to the continent. Addressing journalists during a joint press briefing with the NGOCC in Lusaka yesterday, Nyirenda said the President had reversed all the efforts that stakeholders and citizens had made to end defilement and the violation of women’s rights. “The release of Kanene is very shocking because it has come at a time when the country is facing a lot of economic problems, talk of the fuel increase and other things and the President has just responded to all these problems with the release of General Kanene,” he said.
“That’s a mockery to our justice system, it is a mockery to the fight against defilement. We were making strides and the President has just reversed everything by releasing General Kanene.” Nyirenda wondered why the Head of State, who was a lawyer, could pardon Kanene, adding that President Lungu had now given powers to defilers and rapists to go on a rampage harming innocent children and women, and still hope to be pardoned. “For us now, this is telling us that our children can be defiled by anyone anyhow and when they [defilers] are in jail, they just praise the President, they just sing a song to praise the President and then they are released,” he added. “General Kanene is a convicted defiler.
He was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment and there is no way he can serve less than a year or a year and be released. There are so many Zambians who are facing injustice and they must be out of those jail cells but there they are; they are suffering and the President doesn’t pay attention.” Nyirenda urged Zambians to be aggressive and demand that the President rescind Kanene’s pardon.
“All of us as Zambians, mothers out there, fathers, you must stand up. This is not a women’s issue, we must all stand up and condemn this and tell the President in his face that this is wrong and it must be reversed and no apologies should be made about this,” said Nyirenda. And Mwale said President Lungu had embarrassed the nation by accepting the gender sensitive award bestowed on him during the AU summit in South Africa last month. “What the President has done is really an embarrassment to the continent, especially that he was recently given the gender-sensitive award.
What he [Lungu] has done is a mockery to the fight against gender-based violence,” said Mwale.


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