Man forgives adulterous wife
By VIOLET MENGOA 44-YEAR-OLD man of Lusaka’s Luangwa township forgave his wife who knelt before him and asked for forgiveness from him for having had a sexual binge with another man.
Josephine Zulu, 34, knelt before her husband at the Lusaka boma local court and asked for forgiveness.
“Please forgive me, I know that I have sinned against you and God…I promise to tell you in future if any man approaches me for love. I am ashamed of myself for the embarrassment I have caused you,” she said.
Zulu told the husband that she could not afford to lose the 17 years of marriage over a few minutes sexual satisfaction she had with another man.
This was in a case of adultery involving Aiwell Phiri, 44, of Luangwa township and Sam Singwa, 30, of Chipata township.
Phiri sued Singwa for compensation, alleging that he committed adultery with his wife.
Zulu told the court that Singwa had for a long time been proposing love to her, which one day led to him inviting her for a drink.
“I went to meet him at a bar not knowing that my children were drinking from there. After he bought me some drinks, he booked a room where we made love after which he gave me K150,000,” Zulu said.
She said as they were dressing up, her children appeared and started calling her a prostitute.
She described the scene as humiliating, especially that her own children caught her committing adultery.
Zulu said she had learnt her lesson and vowed never to accept any man’s proposal.
Earlier, Phiri told the court that he has been married to Zulu for 16 years and loves her so much that he cannot imagine life without her.
He said he did not know anything concerning his wife’s affair with Singwa until the day she was caught.
“I was home in the evening when I heard some noise from outside and when I went to check, I found a mob of people with my wife and Singwa at the centre…they were calling them prostitutes,” he said.
Phiri told the court that he spends a lot of money to make his wife look beautiful for himself and not Singwa.
But Singwa told the court that he was enticed by Zulu when the two met at the bar.
“I did not know that this woman is married. She told me that she is not married and begged me to have sex with her. She is the one the booked the room in which we had sex,” he said.
He said it is clear that Zulu loves him so much that she cast a spell on him to lose his mind over her.
“I am sorry for my actions. I was drunk and did not know what I was doing, I only realised after I had finished having sex with her…besides, the sex was not nice,” he said.
Senior presiding magistrate Regina Mumba, in passing judgment, said it was evident that Zulu and Sangwa had been having an affair for a long time.
Magistrate Mumba advised Singwa to desist from sleeping with married women.
She told Zulu that she was an embarrassment to the women as nature does not allow them to behave in such a manner.
The court order Singwa to compensate Phiri K15 million in monthly installments of K200,000.
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