WIFE DENIES BRINGING LOVER INTO MARITAL HOME
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:26:27 +0000
By Frank Nyambe
A Lusaka woman has denied bringing a lover in her matrimonial home insisting the man had only come to collect keys.
Doris Mwale, 23, of Kanyama compound was testifying in a case in which her husband, Wizi Mukonda, 23, had sued her for reconciliation.
Mwale told the court in Lusaka that she did not bring a lover in the matrimonial home but that the man was her husband’s friend who had come to collect keys.
She said she allowed him to wait by the veranda because it was raining.
Mwale was testifying in a case where her husband Mukonda sued her for reconciliation. The two got married in 2011 and have two children.
Appearing before senior court Magistrates Abbyshine Michelo, Mubukwanu Matakala and Esther Mulomba at Kanyama Local Court, Mukonda claimed that Mwale was in the habit of bringing a man in their matrimonial home when he was at work.
He explained that in 2016, he was supposed to be on night shift at work but he was sent home to rest and that at 19 hours he fall asleep.
He said when he woke up he saw a man leaving the sitting room adding that cushions on the sofas were scattered.
Mukonda added that Mwale had asked for forgiveness and that he took her to her parents.
‘’Three months ago my five-year-old child told me that there is a man who comes with a car at the road and that he drops Mwale. Later she said I am not a man enough, she even said I should take her to her parents and she slapped me,’’ complained Mukonda.
In defence, Mwale said Mukonda was influenced by his relatives and friends and that long ago, they used to make a budget together but that he was now making the budget with his sister.
She explained that in 2014 Mukonda’s pregnant girlfriend called saying she wanted clothes for the baby.
Mwale explained that last year, Mukonda’s friend went to get keys at their home and she allowed him to wait by the veranda while she collected the keys because it was raining.
But Mukonda then started beating her afterwards on suspicion that he was my lover, she added. “I started selling freezits while I was seven months pregnant but Mukonda says it was my boyfriend who buys me things. I then left the matrimonial home on August 18, 2017,’’ said Mwale.
Mwale said she still loved her husband and was ready to go back home. The court said the couple had a lot of problems as Mukonda alleges Mwale was not faithful.
But the court said since Mukonda had sued his wife for reconciliation, to which Mwale was agreeable, the couple was reconciled.