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CA member, Zarina Madabida
The death penalty is likely to remain in the new constitution as members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) yesterday expressed general support for capital punishment and suggested hanging of corrupt public officers.
The CA is of the view that the penalty is the best punishment for cases involving cold blood murder among others.
"It is not prudent for us to dissolve our penal code in favour of killers, death penalty is well stipulated in the country laws, and it is only applicable to murder related offences," said CA member Zarina Madabida calling for the penalty to stay.
"If we remove it then we will in effect be fuelling crime especially killings of the weak like women, children and the elderly," she argued.
She said ongoing killings of people with albinism and other superstitious related murders would also increase.
Late mid this week, a section of the CA members expressed concern on the matter raising similar arguments, removal of the death penalty will fuel murder cases.
Many are of the view that the death penalty is only disputed on the religious grounds and by human rights activities whom they said are ‘forgetting that those who face the penalty had either conspired to or had taken away lives of other human beings.'
The law makers maintained that offences such as terror attacks, organising terror plots, treason, murder, economic sabotage and conspiracy to commit murder deserve the death penalty and that the new constitution should only modify the means of executing the penalty.
Similarly, CA member Jesca Msambatavangu expressed her support to hang persons found guilty of corruption and she received support from Prof Mark Mwandosya who said persons guilty of misappropriation of public funds should be hanged.
Source: The Guardian
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