Broken woman’ asks for divorce
By VIOLET MENGOA WOMAN of Lusaka’s Chaisa township who had her hand broken by her husband has asked the court to dissolve her marriage.
Grace Lungu, 28, told senior presiding magistrate Regina Mumba that she wanted her marriage dissolved because of her husband’s cruelty towards her.
Lungu said she got married to Kebby Lumamba of Chawama in 2008 and has a child with him.
She said Lumamba is a cruel man who beats her and only stops when she faints.
Lungu told the court that in April this year, her husband asked her to go and help his mother at the farm and that while she was there, he took a woman home.
“My husband has been unfaithful to me. He took me to his mother so that I could help her at the farm but he was busy here with another woman in my matrimonial home,” she said.
Lungu told the court that the latest fight was as a result of a call that she received from one of her mother’s relatives in the village.
“I received a call from my mother’s relative who asked me to rely a message to his sister who lives in the neighbourhood. I told my husband about it but later that day, he beat me and broke my hand.
“My husband run away after realising that what he had done was wrong and only came back recently,” she said.
Lungu, who had a bandage on her right hand, told the court that she wanted her marriage dissolved.
The case could not, however, continue as Lumamba was sent to prison, pending disposal of the case in which he assaulted his wife and ran away.
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