Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:30:05 +0000
By FRANK NYAMBE
A WOMAN who couldn’t stop playing cards and spent nights out despite signing an agreement with her husband that she risked divorce if she did not stop her bad habits has been dragged to court in Lusaka for divorce.
This is in a case in which Yorum Nyirongo, 40, of Barlastone compound sued his wife Tisa Banda, 30, for divorce.
The two got married in 2007 and have three children.
Nyirongo told Senior Court Magistrate Pauline Newa sitting with Magistrate Miyanda Banda at Matero Local Court that problems started in 2012 when Banda started playing cards and later started spending nights out.
He explained that on July 29, she left home at 14.00 hours and he was forced to lock the children inside the house to go for work because his wife was nowhere to be found.
“When I asked Banda why she was behaving like that, she insulted me and said that if I wanted I could kill her. Both families had signed an agreement that if she continues spending nights out or play cards we should divorce but she never stopped,’’ said Nyirongo.
Nyirongo produced the signed agreement before the court as evidence.
In defence, Banda said that since she got married she did not see the payslip of Nyirongo and that he doesn’t buy her what she wants but only gave her K100 to use for the whole month.
She denied playing cards and said that she spent a night in Lusaka West and that the other time she went to sleep at her mother’s place but failed to communicate with Nyirongo because her phone was not working.
Magistrate Newa adjourned the matter to a later date for judgement and for Nyirongo to bring papers for the house they built on a family plot.
