Kitwe PF raps NGOS for remaining quiet over Monze violence

PATRIOTIC Front (PF) Itimpi ward councillor Mpasa Mwaya is disappointed at the failure by women Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to strongly condemn the attack on PF Southern Province secretary Brenda Munashabantu by UPND cadres.

Ms Mwaya said the attack on Ms Munashabantu was an assault on all the women, especially that she was almost undressed.

At the weekend, UPND cadres in Monze ambushed the PF campaign team in Mwanza ward, beating up Ms Munashabantu and narrowly lynched her deputy Leonard Siachona who managed to escape.

Ms Mwaya added that UPND chairperson Mutale Nalumango should have come out strongly to condemn the attack because she too was a woman and senior leader in the opposition.

“I felt injured and insulted when I heard that Ms Munashabantu had been beaten up by UPND cadres. I felt injured and insulted not because I am from PF, but because I am a woman.

“It is really disappointing that because of politics, cadres can be beating up a woman and almost stripping her naked. Surely, why should it go to that level? I am disappointed that women NGOs have failed to strongly condemn such barbaric acts,” Ms Mwaya said.

Ms Mwaya said society, especially women NGOs should condemn any attack on any women regardless who had perpetrated the vice.

She said the women NGOs had lost the vibrancy they were previously associated with, leaving majority of women to being abused in politics, marriages and in other sections of society.

“The unity that we exhibit during Women’s Day should not end on that day, but the fire should be kept burning so that abusive men should think twice before engaging in their evil activities. We should condemn attacks on any women regardless of who has committed it,” She said.