MP Katsonga calls for castration of rapists, as youth body advocates for martial arts to fight back sexual violence
A member of parliament has called for the castration of rapists legislation while a youth rights group is advocating for the training of girls in martial arts to stop the rising number of rape and defilement cases in the country.
Neno South Constituency Member of Parliament, Mark Katsonga, has proposed castration to perpetrators of defilement and rape.
“Putting them in prison will be a waste of resources and putting inmates at risk of sodomy,” he said.
Katsonga spoke this today in Neno when he graced the district’s World Aids Day.
He appealed to his constituents to write him a petition on the same so that he presents the suggestion to parliament.
In Neno, at least 28 girls have been sexually abused this year.
Meanwhile, a girl-child rights group, Girl Up, has taken a pro-active step to equip female youngsters with martial arts skills for self-defence against potential defilers and rapists.
According to the grouping, many girls fall victim to attackers because they fail to defend themselves when assaulted.
Chimwemwe Chiweza, a member of the Girl Up leadership in Malawi indicates that such defensive skill are what women and girls need at a time like this.
In Mzimba, communities in the district continue to grapple with gender-based violence cases despite protracted efforts by state and non-state actors to combat the vice.
The revelation coincides with the conclusion of the 16 days of activism against GBV yesterday .
Mzimba South District Social Welfare Officer Bernard Nangwale discloses that consolidated statistics from various referral points and protection structures show that over 120 GBV cases were registered in nine months.
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And what should we do with women who sleep with underage boys??
If the rapist turns out to be female, what will the law do to her? Though not very common, females too commit the offence.
Let’s castrate Katsonga’s balls first. He raped many young ladies at Candlex Ltd.
Resolving the country’s contentious issues with childishness will not help, mainly when such is coming from an MP who is a people’s representative in Parliament.
When you look at the problem you will notice that it is multi-dimensional. There are a number of factors that are making this heinous acts become rampant. The first one is the uncontrolled proliferation of illicit drugs in the country which, unfortunately has been brought on the market by Nigerians. Instead of the police service working to arrest the situation, they are busy engaged in political programmes. A drug addict if left unchecked will do anything ie rape, murder, robbery and any form of anti-social behaviour.
The second thing lies on the literacy rate in the country. It takes an individual who has been to school to appreciate the rights of a girl/woman. Multi-party acceptance has its own pros & cons; sanity and commonsense goes together with civility. In the absence of one of them the result is always a distortion of social livelihood in a society. Females are free to dress in the manner they feel as long as it is not revealing the unrevealables. Vendors in our cities are free to undress females whenever they think they can impose policing duties. When that occurs the public standby to watch and encourage them. That is not acceptable although at times the girl/woman may be at fault. In such cases where are all the freedoms we talk about, or are the freedoms suited for boys/men alone?
Thirdly is the slackness in our legal and law enforcement agencies who think arrests should be made only on usual common law breakers. A person has to be arrested as long as he is causing others to feel unsafe and scared. Are Malawians aware of citizens arrest, whereby an individual/s can effect an arrest and hand over the culprit to the police? Basically that means every person is a watchdog or guard of the other fella sitting next to them. If such was the case there wouldn’t be those reckless behaviours by criminals. But alas!! everyone has their arms folded.
Fourthly, it is the duty of government to come up with stringent measures in order to curtail these practices. If we as men are incapable of protecting our women, who will do so, foreigners?? Leadership entails coming up with management models to tackle various problems affecting the people. An all round leadership is what we are talking about here, coz everybody looks up to the leader. It can’t work if time is wasted on theories and continues talking in jargon. Man-up government!!! If there is nothing like civic education, how do people know the evils of their acts? Surprisingly, in Malawi there are numerous CSOs & NGO’s but most of them are politically skewed because of the monetary gains that go together with such nonsense.
Finally, this is getting out of hand and yet none of the people’s representatives in Parliament think of bringing it up for discussion, all they are good at is just lining their pockets with our tax money. One of them is even having the audacity to bark loudly unashamedly that the best solution is to castrate rapists, really? The guy has already forgotten that we are in a democratic dispensation. He sulks!!!
When advocating for such legislation also propose what remedy to be done in case an Innocent person is castrated. If the alleged castrators were to face the formal and civilised punishment they would simply be released and start enjoying their sex life again.
Bravo Mark, such approaches are required at times so that the rest will learn and refrain for the good of all the massed.
Go ahead,,,
Bravo katsonga
Mmm Honourable, kumakhululuka ka 70 x 7 times. Nanga wogwilirayo ali mwana wanu?
Akamuchosa mabatire izangokhala paipi ya mvula baasi galuyo ndiye mwathana naye.
Tisayinira petition yo big Man 👍🏿🇲🇼