The Church has rejected a recommendation by Zambia Law Development Commission (ZLDC) to amend the bigamy law so that it no longer criminalises a married person’s decision to have more than one spouse.

The Christian fraternity feels decriminalising the bigamy law is retrogressive and will destroy many families in the country.

Bishop Banda, who is also president of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Africa-Southern Africa Region, said the quality of relationships in marriages has fallen.

The clergy said marriages are already threatened by infidelity due to unfaithfulness, and that allowing men to have more women as wives is not the solution.

Last year, more than 20,000 marriages were dissolved countrywide, with Lusaka, Eastern and Western provinces emerging highest on the divorce ladder after.

Zambia Daily mail