Mkushi sex party reflection of moral failure – Reverend Mwanza

THE Mkushi sex party is a reflection of moral failure in society where teachers have lost their positions as role models to the children, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia executive secretary Pukuta Mwanza has said.

Reverend Mwanza said those teachers caught up in the unfortunate situation were destroying the dignity of the children through the immoral acts which could be linked to alcohol abuse by the teachers themselves.

He said teachers should have been able to exercise maximum restraint instead of exhibiting weakness and conducting themselves in such immoral behavior.

“Acting like this, the teachers are destroying the dignity of our children. They are not setting a good example to the children by acting in such a manner, behind this there could be some alcohol abuse which could contribute to the moral destruction of the children.

“But going into such extreme situations means that they cannot control their moral pressures and are eroding the moral condition of our society,” he said.

Reverend Mwanza explained that at this time teachers were expected to be more concerned about HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancies but that they have only exhibited their weakness in the lives of the children they teach.

And the Man of God said possibilities of just transferring the teachers from those schools would not be enough to help correct their behavior and that would not be reprimand enough to scare off would-be offenders.

He charged that there must be adequate punishment to help reform the culprits and to deter those with similar intensions.

“Transferring them is helpful but does not deal with moral failure they have gone through themselves, but instead they must be subjected to a lot of counseling and sufficient lessons be inculcated in this teachers.

“We may be transferring a problem that might occur again in other schools,” he said.

He further explained that the incident also talks a lot about the teacher training programme which must be revised to address the important role they played in society because nobody becomes a professional un- til they go through the hands of a teacher. And the clergyman said as a Christian Nation, there was need to uphold Christian values into the lifestyle of the nation, and that those teachers must be helped to reform so that they do not transfer the problem to other schools.

He called on school heads to help inculcate good morals in their members of staff and builds an upright generation of young people.