Police have appealed for help from anyone with information on people behind the production and circulation on social media of a locally-made sex video featuring a distinctively identified woman having sex with an unknown man.
Sources say the woman is believed to be an employee of a local commercial bank.
The woman’s face and the sexual act are clear in the video, which appears to have been shot in an office.
Acting police spokesperson Esther Mwaata Katongo has told the Sunday Mail that the service’s cybercrime unit will work with the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) to investigate the matter and bring the culprits to book.
“We will involve ZICTA and whoever is found wanting will be charged for circulation of obscene material with intent to corrupt public morals, contrary to section 177(1) of the Penal Code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia,” she said.
The offence carries a maximum of five years imprisonment.
“Any person who takes part or has in their possession obscene material which can be in writing, drawing, painting, printed matter, pictures, posters, photographs and cinematography films or any manner whatsoever and puts them in circulation is liable for prosecution,” Mrs Katongo said.
She said though many sex websites are not hosted in Zambia, there are provisions in the law to prosecute anyone who conveys, exports, imports or causes to export or import; or takes part in the circulation of the obscene material.
“Our appeal to the Zambian people is that let them be responsible and do right things. If something is wrong, let them do what the law says. If a wrong thing is legal in another country, let them go and do such things in other countries. We won’t condone that.
“Anyone who knows people behind this video should come forward and we will keep their particulars in confidence. Looking at the nature of the offence, even if no complainant comes forward to lodge a complaint, the State can still be a complainant,” she said.
The woman in the video appears to be in her late 30s or early 40s and some sources say she is married with children but it is not clear if she was having sex with her husband in the video.
Another sex video that recently went viral is that of a woman stripped naked and verbally and physically abused by unknown men and women for allegedly committing adultery.
The police have offered a K5,000 reward for any information that will lead to the arrest of those behind the production and circulation of the video.
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Mr Mulemena Richard
Stil even if the government finds the culprit they always dnt do anything they end up freeing the law breakers and this gives courage to people to do awful things over and over against without fear. What has the government done to iris kaingu and booby scene? Totally nothing so evn if they invov zicta no good wil come out unLess if they start punishing the culprites