Police in Lusaka have
launched investigations in the matter in which two girls are flaunting pictures
of their same sex relationship on social media.
Police spokesperson
Ester Katongo says police are aware of the picture where two girls are reported
to have been in an intimate relationship.
Ms. Katongo says it is
an offence for people of the same sex to engage in an intimate relationship or
sexual affair .
Section 158 subsection
1 and 2 of the Penal Code , Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia addresses Indecent
Practices between Persons of same sex.
Section 158 (2) states
that any female who, whether in public or private , commits any act of gross
indecency with a female child or person , or procures a female child or person
to commit any act of gross indecency with her , or attempts to procure the
commission of any such act by any female person
with herself or another female child or person whether in public or
private, commits a felony.
This indicates that any
person convicted of this offence is liable to imprisonment for a term of not
less than seven years and a maximum
sentence of fourteen years.
Section 155 (a) of the
Penal Code under Unnatural Offences, criminalizes canal knowledge against the
order of nature and anyone found guilty is liable to imprisonment for a term
not less than fifteen years while the maximum sentence is life imprisonment.
Ms Katongo has since
stated that Police officers from the Cyber-crime
unit have instituted investigations in the matter.
She calls upon people with information that may be
helpful in the investigations to report to any nearest Police Station so that perpetrators are brought to
book.
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