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are all affected by AIDS pandemicLocal News Up-Date, February 27, 2010
Girl 10 goes mad after being defiled by her 38 year old step dad
By Robert Hara
A 10 year old girl in Magoye has gone mad after allegedly being defiled by
her 38 year old stepfather.
Mother to the victim, Julliet Muchindu and Police sources in Magoye
confirmed the incident to Radio Chikuni News recently.
Ms Muchindu said that her Husband Mukosa Chimanda had carnal knowledge of
her 10 year old daughter on three occasions.
She said Chimanda took advantage of the fact that she went early for work,
and defiled the named minor after she left for work.
On the material day, she narrated that her daughter told her that her
private part hurt so much because Chimanda had slept with her and she rushed
the girl to the hospital for medical examinations.
Medical experts at the local hospital confirmed the girl had been sexually abused.
She later reported the matter to the police, but her husband managed to
escape before he was arrested by the cops, and to this present day his
whereabouts are not known.
She described her daughter‘s ordeal ‘brutal and very traumatising’.
Ms Muchindu explained that the brutality of the molester and the violence he
threatened her with, coupled with the pain he inflicted on her, left the
girl with so much trauma such that she became mad two days after the matter
was reported to the police.
She further said the level of sadism by the alleged defiler is appalling.
‘The girl was badly bruised on her private part, during the act he would
threaten her with a knife and told her he would slice her with the knife if
she screamed or told any one what was happening’,Ms Muchindu says.
Ms Muchindu said her daughter may never recover from the trauma and live as
a normal child again.
‘My daughter is now a raving lunatic, and she is being prayed for by a
certain pastor in Lubombo but am not sure that after its all over ,she will
be the same again. I think her life is over somehow, like a part of her is
taken away and it can’t be put back’, she says.
And police sources in the area say they are still searching for Chimanda who
remains at large.
Kaimbo urges fight against factors that favour the spread of HIV
By Nchimunya Vanessa Mweemba
Monze District Aids Co-ordination Advisor ,Beatrice Kaimbo, says there is
need to devise strategies aimed at addressing the key drivers of HIV
infection.
Ms Kaimbo told Radio Chikuni News Thursday that beer drinking, multiple and
concurrent sexual partners and poverty remain the key drivers of the
pandemic that need to be addressed, if new infections are to be prevented.
She said HIV infection rates can only drop significantly if the country
finds ways of addressing the factors that favour the further spread of the
virus that causes AIDS.
Ms Kaimbo has also said the fight against the disease can be won if no new
HIV infections are recorded hence the need for Aids activists to encourage
HIV negative people to shun behaviours that put them at risk of contracting
the deadly virus.
In a related development ,Ms Kaimbo has called for the enactment of a law
that will make wilful transmission of HIV a criminal offence.
She says that wilfully acting to infect another person with HIV is not only
inhumane but also unfair, deeming it a blatant violation a person’s right to life.
Ms Kaimbo says the law will protect vulnerable groups from being infected
with HIV especially young girls who are at risk of being infected with the
virus because of the rampant cases of child defilement.
‘CEEC not a pro-poor initiative’-Chief Ufwenuka
By Nchimunya Vanessa Mweemba
Chief Ufwenuka of the Tonga people in Monze District of Southern province
says government should devise empowerment schemes that suit the needs of poor.
The Chief said real social and economic transformation will only be a
reality if policies aimed at empowering marginalised individuals and
communities respond to the needs of the poor.
He has observed that failure by government to devise pro-poor strategies has
worsened poverty in the country.
The traditional leader told Radio Chikuni News that empowerment strategies
such as the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission (CEEC) can not help the
country reduce poverty.
Chief Ufwenuka says the CEEC conditions are harsh and make it impossible
for poor people especially those in rural areas to access the funds.
School authorities say teachers are to blame for poor grade 12 results
By Moono Hamasukwa
Two school authorities in Monze have attributed the poor grade twelve
results recorded to teacher laziness.
Canisius High School Headmaster Nzila Himoonde, and Monze Boarding High
School Deputy Headmaster Smith Habulembe, said many teachers in schools are
very lazy and this has impacted negatively on the academic performance of
many pupils in final examinations.
They said most teachers in Zambia have no passion for teaching, which
affects their performance and this is reflected in the poor results the
country has been recording.
The two also charged that most teachers ventured into teaching just for sake of money.
They said the love for money has made teachers become lazy in class and most
of them opt to offer tuitions so as to make more money at the expense of
offering a service they are paid for by the government.
Mr Nzila and Mr. Habulembe have since called on government to abolish
holiday tuitions in schools.
The two school administrators said abolishing holiday tuitions in schools
will make teachers concentrate on the job they are paid for by the government.
They were speaking Thursday, when they featured on the “Amubabuzye live
discussion programme on Radio Chikuni.
Singonya storm victims’ situation still desperate
By Choolwe Hamando
Ufwenuka ward councilor Tenara Mwanakalanga has appealed to Society for
Family Health to come to the aid of 18 families in Mwiingamalimvwa and Nang’andu
villages in Chief Ufwenuka’s area whose were left homeless after a storm
swept through the area last month.
Mr Mwanakalanga is requesting Society for Family Health to provide the
affected families with tents.
He told Radio Chikuni News that the 18 families have been spending nights in
the cold since the storm struck saying no aid has been forthcoming.
Mr Mwanakalanga has also expressed disappointment at government’s lack of
concern as the District Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit and the
District Commissioner have not offered any help to the 18 homeless families.
He said the situation is still desperate as the affected families have no
shelter and food.
Mr Mwanakalanga says he had told authorities that it is impossible for the
18 families to rebuild their collapsed houses as it the height of the rain
season-hence the need for them to be provided with tents to erect temporary shelters.
On January 24 this year, a storm characterised by strong winds and fast
raging waters swept through the two villages, completely destroying 18
houses and the maize crop in the field
