Randy couple divorced
By VIOLET MENGOTHE LUSAKA Boma court has granted divorce to a couple after establishing that both have been unfaithful to each other.
The court also discovered that the couple’s marriage cannot last as both are proud and show no love for each other.
This was in a case in which Angela Ngoma sued Tryson Phiri for divorce. Both are of Lusaka’s Chilenje township.
Ngoma claimed that her husband is unfaithful and sleeps with the housemaids she employs.
She told the court that she could not condone her husband’s tendency of making advances towards their maids whenever she was doing her night shift.
Ngoma who, works as a nurse at the University Teaching Hospital, told the magistrates that during her night shifts, her husband used to entice the maid to have sex with him.
Before two senior court magistrates, Gunstone Kalala and Inutu Mulenga, Ngoma said she has encountered a number of challenges in her marriage and could no longer continue staying with Phiri.
“My husband’s behaviour of sleeping with maids is well known to his family because I have on a number of occasions told them about what he does,” she said.
Ngoma told the court her husband also accuses her of having an extra marital affair with one of the doctors at the hospital.
“I got a lift from a male doctor and this brought a lot of problems in my marriage where my husband started accusing me of having an affair with him,” she said.
Ngoma said that her husband is violent and that he used to pour water on her, causing her to abandon the matrimonial home for sometime.
And Phiri said he has never slept with any of the maids although he admitted having made advances towards one of them.
He told the court that he once had an extra marital affair and admitted this to his wife.
Phiri accused Ngoma of being uncontrollable and never wanting to give up on things she believed in even if they are wrong.
“I have never chased or beaten my wife before. The thing is that on a number of occasions, she left me because she wants to live as if she is not a married woman,” he said.
Phiri told the court that his wife was having an affair with one of the doctors at the UTH and that this led to the doctor’s wife to call him to ask his wife to stop the affair.
“My wife has put me into ridicule with the way she handles herself. At her workplace, everyone know about her affair…I found a number of short messages on her phone from the same man, but I still love my wife,” he said.
Phiri said he is a good husband but was surprised by the move his wife took to end the marriage, saying she did this to gain freedom of doing as she pleases.
The court granted divorce.
Phiri was asked to compensate Ngoma K12 million in monthly installment of K200,000 monthly with an initial payment of K 2million.
He was also asked to maintain his child.
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