By MWANGALA LISELI –
A TWENTY-FOUR-year-old woman of Lusaka who was kicked out of the matrimonial home because of excessive borrowing has asked the Lusaka Boma Court to reconcile her with her husband.
The court heard that Kasonde Mutale had the habit of borrowing money from different people without paying back, and creditors were now seizing household goods to recover their cash.
The situation had persisted that her husband Chola Kanganya, 31, had no option but chase Mutale away in a bid to save the couple’s property.
This is a case in which Mutale, 24, sued her husband for marriage reconciliation after he chased her away.
Kanganya said he had tried to talk to his wife but nothing had changed and Mutale’s unquenched desire to borrow had placed him in bad books with most of the people he knew.
Apparently, the defendant was forced to take his wife to her parents for counselling but nothing had changed after coming back as she continued to borrow without paying back.
“However, she continued and this forced me to take her back to her parents because people have started getting my household goods because of what she owes them,” Kanganya said.
Mutale, however, said she had been forced to borrow because her husband never gave her any money.
She also accused Kanganya of beating and insulting as well as chasing her out of the matrimonial home every time he was drunk.
“Recently, I had to spend three nights outside because he had chased me and when I tried to go back and plead with hinm, he packed my clothes and sent me to my parents that he no longer wanted me,” she said.
Senior court magistrates Hildah Choonya and Paulin Newa reconciled the couple after acknowledging that both of them still loved each other.
The court, however, advised Mutale to stop her borrowing habits while Kanganya was advised to give his wife money to prevent her from borrowing.
Wrongly accused man gets K1,000
BY SARAH TEMBO
A FORTY-THREE-year-old man has been awarded K1,000 in compensation by a local court in Lusaka after he was wrongly accused of going out with someone’s wife.
Fanywell Banda of Chaisa township was violently dragged out of his office recently by Mabvuto Tembo who accused him of flirting with his (Tembo’s) wife.
The local court heard that Banda was then presented to Tembo’s wife. Tembo boasted before his wife and a crowd of people that had gathered to witness the showdown that he had finally managed to fish out his wife’s boyfriend.
Banda told the court that it was the first time that he was meeting Tembo and was shocked to hear about the accusations because he did not know about his wife.
“When I arrived at his (Tembo’s) house, he called his wife and told her that he had found the man whom she was making love with,” he said.
“Unfortunately the woman told her husband that she had never met me before. It was equally the first time I was seeing her but I was not given time to say anything although after his wife refused I was set free.”
Banda, however, told the court that he had been suspended from work because of the confusion that was created when Tembo went to pick him.
In his defence, Tembo admitted that he had picked a wrong Banda because he did not realise that there were more than one Banda at the complainant’s workplace.
Tembo said his neighbour, who informed him about his wife’s infidelity, just told him that I look for Banda at the working place.
“But I didn’t know that there were many Bandas, and I rregret my action, I am really sorry because I mistook him with another Banda who is having an affair with my wife,” he said.
But magistrate Lewis Mumba sitting with Petronella Kalyelye said it was not in order for Tembo to harass Banda without proper evidence that he was having a love affair with his wife.
The court warned Tembo against repeating such behaviour and ordered to compensate Banda with K1,000 for defaming Banda’s character.
Ndola wife to compensate hubby for cheating
By CHATULA KAMPO
A Local Court in Ndola has ordered a 22-year-old woman to pay K10,000 in compensation after she confessed that her three-month-old twins were not for her husband.
Theresa Chola was asked to compensate her husband Arnold Kanguya with K10,000 after she admitted that she had been cheating on him.
Chola and Kanguya had been married for seven months although problems in marriage started in September this year when the complainant found love text messages in the wife’s phone from her boyfriend.
Kanguya was testifying in a case in which he sued Chola for divorce after persistent problems in the couple’s marriage.
Kanguya told the court that he chased his wife after he found the text messages in her phone.
“She came with advisors the next day and apologised. When I asked her whether she will stop her behaviour, she told me she can never change and that the twins she had were not his but for her first boyfriend,” he said.
Meanwhile, Chola admitted before the court cheating on her husband and that the twins she was currently nursing was for her first boyfriend who denied responsibility and not Kanguya.
She told the court that she lied to the complainant that the twins were his because she loved him and wanted to spend her life with him.
In making the final submission to the court, Kanguya asked the defendant to refund him K8, 000 the money he had spent on the twins who he thought were his.
But Chola told the court that the amount that the complainant wanted to be refunded was too much because the twins had not consumed much as they were still being breastfed.
Kabushi senior presiding magistrate Sarah Bwalya who was sitting with magistrate Mildred Namwizye dissolved the marriage and ordered Chola to pay Arnold Kanguya K10,000 as compensation.
The money should be paid in monthly instalments of K200.
Wife demands divorce from abusive hubby
BY SARAH TEMBO
A woman of Lusaka’s Chawama Township has asked the Lusaka Boma court to dissolve her marriage because her husband was abusive and violent.
Nyuma Phiri, 33, told the local court that her husband, Ramadan Phiri had been violent and aggressive from the time he married a third wife.
This was a case in which Nyuma sued Phiri, 38, for divorce after he chased her from the matrimonial home and brought in another woman.
Facts before the court were that the two got married in 2007 and have two children together but problems in their marriage started recently when Ramadan decided to get a third wife.
Nyuma, Phiri’s second wife, told the court that she was against the idea of her husband marrying another woman but that he should instead get back his first wife he chased away before marrying her (Nyuma).
The court heard that Phiri refused the idea of bringing back his first wife and insisted on marrying another woman.
Nyuma said she allowed him to marry another woman on condition that he built her a house and that he should not sleep with the woman until he married her.
“My husband agreed to the conditions but to my surprise, days later he started spending nights out and when he came home, he used to beat me up in front of my children,” she said.
In his defence Phiri told the court that he decided to marry another woman because his wife was mistreating his children.
He said that his wife also never respected him and used to insult him together with his mother for no proper reason.
Phiri said his wife never knew how to keep secrets, adding that whatever happened in their home he used to hear it from other people.
“This woman does not respect me and the woman who gave birth to me; she also mistreats the children I have with my first wife,” he said.
The matter was adjourned to 21st of November 2014 to give the two more time in which to reconcile if they could.
Man seeks share of property from ex-wife
By MWANGALA LISELI
A man of Ng’ombe township in Lusaka has asked a local court to order the sharing of property with his former wife after he was kicked out of the matrimonial home.
Simon Mutuna, 36, told the Boma Local Court that he and his ex wife Mutinta Twambo,31, built the house together, while they were still married.
Mutuna said he had K65,000 to buy a plot or a farm but his wife had convinced him that they build the house on her family plot because it was vacant.
Mutuna told the court that when he refused, Twambo got his money without his consent and started building at her parent’s plot.
He told the court that when they moved to the house, his wife kicked him and his children out saying the house were hers and her children she bore from another man.
“Twambo and my in-laws convinced me to build a house on their family plot and when we moved into the house, I was chased out with my children. One of my children even died because of living on the street,” he said.
Twambo said she could not share the house with Mutuna because she built it alone.
She said she did not know the K65,000 he was talking about as he had only contributed K5,000 to the structure.
She told the court that he always complained when they moved to their house that he wasn’t free and wanted to move out but wanted to get chairs which she had bought alone too.
Twambo said when she refused to give him her chairs, he came with his sisters and beat her up a situation that had forced her to kick him out.
She said she was ready to refund him his K5,000 but not share the house or any property with him.
Principle presiding magistrate Mable Mwaba sitting with senior court magistrates Miyanda Banda and Boway Khanyika adjourned the matter to a later date, saying they had to visit the site where the house was located before coming up with the settlement.
Man ordered to support pregnancy
By CHATULA KAMPO
A thirty-year-one-old man of Ndola’s Mushili Township has been dragged to court for failing to take care of his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend.
The Ndola Main local court heard that Humphrey Chola impregnated Ethel Chiede, but failed to provide any support.
This is a case in which Chiende sued Chola and asked the court to compel her to take care of her.
She told the court the defendant had been refusing to give her money for taking care of his unborn child.
“I do not work and need money to buy food and to pay antenatal bills. Chola is responsible for this pregnancy but has been refusing to support me,” she told the court.
In defence, Chola told the court that he had not been supporting the pregnant girlfriend because he doubted if it was his.
Chola however, accepted to start supporting the child on condition that the complainant keeps receipts for whatever she will be spending when he starts giving her money to support the pregnancy for future reference.
Presiding local court magistrate Oscar Kalaba who was sitting with magistrate Dismus Katampi and Rosemary Muke asked the complainant to find something that could be earning her a living than depending on men.
“The issue of women depending on men is long gone. In this time and era you cannot just be sitting at your parents’ house and eat, you should find something to do,” he said.
The court, however, ordered the defendant to be paying the complaint K250 every month for pregnancy support.
