‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education is not answer to teen pregnancies’

TEACHING of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in schools is not an answer to challenges related to teen pregnancies, child marriages, and sexual abuse against adolescents as argued by its promoters, Chief Chipepo of the Tonga people has said.

The traditional leader said this when he was called to the podium to give a prayer during the commemoration of the Day of National Prayer, Fasting, Repentance and Reconciliation at the showgrounds in Lusaka yesterday.

He said government should halt CSE in schools because it promoted foreign sexual education and practices that was harmful to the future of the Zambian children.

Chief Chipepo, a staunch Pentecostal believer said CSE was against Zambia’s cultural, traditional and religious values and urged government to abandon its teaching in schools immediately. He said the teaching of Comprehensive Sexual Education in schools was going to turn the country into biblical Sodom and Gomorrah where evil acts like homosexual was allowed. The Traditional leader vowed that no evil would be allowed in the nation and let alone the teaching of Comprehensive Sexual Education to children in schools.

“We pray against the teaching and reject Comprehensive Sexual Education and anyone who is going to teach our children things they should not know,” prayed Chief Chipepo.

The chief also prayed for President Lungu for God to continue giving him wisdom to lead the country in a Godly manner.

He said Day of National Prayer, Fasting, Repentance and Reconciliation was a special day set aside to pray to God to ask him for blessings and favor.