Zanu-PF MP celebrates Gumbura's incarceration

ZANU-PF Goromonzi west legislator Beatrice Nyamupinga has expressed joy over the recent incarceration of Endtime Messages church leader Martin Gumbura who was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty for raping female congregants.

"I cannot stand up and express my joy on the fact that Mr. Gumbura was given so many years or that the other one was given 230 years. We feel motivated by the fact that our courts are now looking at such issues considerably," Nyamupinga said.

"We have a duty as legislators in this august House. We need to emphasise the importance of that Act as voiced out by the last speaker. We need to take note of what our Act is addressing in terms of violence and rape.

"Is this Act a mere gambling act biased towards those who are eloquent and can explain themselves well in a court of law leading to a lesser sentence. It seems as if the law is being taken more as a gambling act than as a law."

Nyamupinga said rich people were taking advabntage of poverty to pounce on women.

"We also want to really say, what has gone wrong in our society. At times you can also hear people saying, but you women, 13 of you, what have you been doing with Gumbura?" she said.

"There are other issues that we have to look into like economic empowerment. You know, at times men take advantage of us women.

They will be aware that I am poor and because of that, they assume that one can fall prey to every other thing because people cannot just pile on someone just for the sake of that," Nyamupinga said.

"We have to investigate and see that if someone is taking advantage of other people's poverty"