Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:00:49 +0000
THE Basic Teachers Union of Zambia has admitted that Mkushi teachers embroiled in a sex party scandal, took pupils, some of them minors, for a braii at an awkward time and out of school bounds but are not sure if any sex took place.
The union has insisted that they will not protect any teachers found guilty of abusing pupils in any way, including failing to guide them against bad vices such as underage alcohol abuse.
BETUZ secretary-general Geoffrey Simuntala said a report from the fact finding mission undertaken to ascertain the allegations of a sex party involving four teachers and some under-age pupils was that the said teachers had taken the learners for an out of school braii beyond curfew. And Mr Simuntala explained that the union would never support any member found wanting, and that “obviously we are not going to protect any teachers found wanting and especially that these are just children who are supposed to be protected by the teacher.”
He said the report from Mkushi indicated that the teachers refused having been involved in sexual intercourse, but admitted to having organised a braii where they were taking alcohol with the minors.
Four teachers have been suspended and subsequently transferred to lower schools following the events that took place at the party. This was after he was quoted in some media seemingly defending the teachers for their acts when he said they only organised a braii where they drank alcohol with the pupils outside school premises and beyond regulation time.
He explained that the teachers were not supposed to be with the pupils at that time, and the pupils should have been in school and so the teachers must be disciplined following the disciplinary code of ethics.
Daily Nation has come across information from a witness who attests to the happenings at the party, which information the authorities in Mkushi were fully aware of hence their decision to suspend the teachers, and subsequently transfer them to lower schools.
