REINSTATE DEATH PENALTY, LM TELLS STATE

LEADERSHIP Movement Secretary-General, Jairos Ngoma has called on the New Dawn Government to restore the death penalty to the Penal Code to help reduce the rising number of murder cases in the communities.

Mr Ngoma said by removing the death penalty from the Penal Code, the new dawn administration had shown lack of commitment to safeguarding the lives of citizens.

Mr Ngoma said in an interview with Millennium TV that the reintroduction of the death penalty would act as a deterrent and help to reduce the rising number of murder cases in communities.

“This law that they have removed , we are telling them now as Leadership Movement that this law will be a catalyst for murder. So what they should do now is to make sure that educated or not, young people should be taken to productive areas where they should be engaged unlike leaving them with these criminals who are now giving them psychotropic substances so that when they take the drugs, they feel that they can just kill at will.

“As it stands, we are sitting on a time bomb. They should get advice from us , the way to go is production,” Mr Ngoma said.

He expressed concern that there has been an increase in the number of murder cases in the country, especially Lusaka.

“These people have been told to remove the death penalty by the Americans . It is only leadership that will restore this law. We are telling them that they should give young people what to do in the State farms, they should be production, once they are productive , criminals will not be finding our young people roaming the streets,” Mr Ngoma said.

He said the only way to reduce the high number of murder cases is to restore the death penalty.