Can anti-homosexuality issue win votes for MMD?

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

NDOLA: Zambia goes to the polls next month but instead of 'bread and butter issues' that affect the ordinary citizen taking centre stage, the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government is touting the homosexual issue as its trump card to draw political support from Zambian Christian voters.

The political leadership under President Rupiah Banda has put in motion a make-belief that opposition Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata is being funded by the West so that once elected president, he will legalise homosexuality in the country.

Zambia was declared a Christian nation, despite protests from other religious groups like Muslims and Hindus in the country, after MMD came to power in 1991.

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