‘SEX EDUCATION SHOULD NOT CONFLICT ZAMBIAN VALUES’

COMPREHENSIVE Sexuality Education (CSE) must not conflict with the Zambian cultural values, Evangelical Youth Alliance (EYA) has said.

EYA president Reverend, Moses Lungu, said that the proposed introduction of CSE in schools raised moral questions that must be answered.

Rev Lungu made the observation in an interview with the Daily Nation yesterday.

He wondered where the systems and current mechanisms of sexuality education had gone wrong for the country to adopt the proposed curricular.

According to him, Zambia was not a liberal society and as such had created mechanisms of communicating such information to the children.

He argued that an attempt to introduce such a curriculum without considering the long-established systems raised a lot of scepticism.

"Zambia is a conservative and not a liberal society. Our systems are based on our cultural values and norms and as such they must not be infringed upon," he said.

He said that the proposed system could be a danger to the school children if introduced without thorough consultation.

Rev Lungu challenged the proponents to avail the research findings on the matter. A

According to him, the curriculum must be based on study findings which must identify the problem that necessitated it.

He stated that the Zambian society had adopted systems of information dissemination to children taking into consideration every stage of development.

Rev Lungu, therefore, submitted that the idea must be consultative enough and allow diverse views to be heard.

He stressed that if the proposed curricular was foreign, then it must be treated as such because it could just be a 'copy and paste'.