Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:21:42 +0000
By FRANK NYAMBE
THERE was laughter in a Local Court in Lusaka when a man asked his wife who is alleged to have been denied conjugal rights if the other woman is stopping him from making love to her.
Darlington Wamuna, 40, a businessman of Monze was testifying in a case in which his wife, Osness Mudala, 38, a Tailor of Kanyama compound sued him for divorce.
The two got married in 2000 and they have four children. Dowry was paid.
Mudala told Senior Court Magistrate Esther Mulomba at Kanyama Local Court that Wamuna left matrimonial home in 2015 and that he would come and go but on August 5,2017 he went for good. He had since married another woman.
She explained that she has tried to seek audience to know the reason Wamuna left but he refused adding that Wamuna doesn’t maintain the children.
‘’Wamuna said that he was going for farming but instead he went for good. On November 5, 2017 he called me and said that we should divorce,’’ said Mudala.
In cross-examination, Mudala said that they stopped making love when Wamuna found another woman.
And Wamuna asked if the other woman stops him from making love to her but Mudala said she doesn’t know.
In defence, Wamuna said that when his contractual job ended, he decided to go to farming.
He explained that after harvesting last year he told Mudala to come to the farm but she refused.
‘’I went to Mudala’s parents in Monze to seek audience but Mudala got upset until now she didn’t make an effort to follow me and see how I am living.
The court said that they have been on separation and that they don’t make love adding that Mudala refused to follow Wamuna at the farm.
The court said that Mudala wants divorce and that the court could not force her.
The court granted the couple divorce without compensation and Wamuna was ordered to pay a child maintenance fee of K700 per month. The couple would share households goods acquired together.
