A 43-year-old woman from Lusaka’s Katuba complex has recounted in court how she endured 23 years of marriage only to have four children with her husband, whose manh00d would take a long break each time the duo met to play adult games.
Getrude Chinkanko stated that her husband, Africa Siatembo, has expanded her duties from wife to intimate mechanic, as her duty over the last 23 years has been to jumpstart his instrument of power, which would plummet faster than the Kwacha to the US dollar each time she utilised her feminine power to maintain it strong.
She stated that Siatembo has had performance troubles since the beginning of their marriage, and that the couple’s four children came about by luck and the grace of God, since his manhood would give out in the middle of their session, before she could shout ‘apopene!’ But it was not Chikanko’s intention to leave her one-time soul mate nak3d in front of the entire courtroom.
She was compelled to expose their marriage secret after her husband accused her of bew!tching his manh00d, stopping him from performing for his second wife.
It was revealed that Siatembo, while being disadvantaged below the belt, depended on his two minutes power to marry another lady in order to observe how his chalk might stand on the board and teach another
He enrolled the woman, who was his wife’s aunt, in the biology course and later married her as a second wife. However, as the second wife discovered during this loadshedding, the grass is always greener on the other side, as she was stunned just like a person who receives energy from Zesco for a full day at a time.
She felt let down when Siatembo was unable to maintain the integrity of the biological pillar. The bemba saying “ing’anda baikumbwa umutenge”—a home is only admired from its roof was then accepted by the husband snatcher.
“We have been on separation for 2 years now since he married my aunt. When he left, he even bought me summons because he and his pastor accused me of bewitching him because he could not have erections towards his new wife, but that is a problem which was there since I married him in 2001.”
“From the word go, he had performance issues. Even the children we had were by chance we had to struggle just for him to have an erection,” said Chikanko.
But Siatembo told the court that he managed to satisfy both his two wives after marrying the second one as he had on them on three days shifts for each every week, and that unlike Zesco, he followed his schedule.
He said the biggest problem that he had with Chikanko was that she loved using traditional medicine a lot, and that she started drinking alcohol in 2019.
But she also defended herself that on the one time that she used traditional medicine, she had taken him to seek help so that she could enjoy his manhood in peace, and for a longer duration but that his erection problem was still bigger than the ancestors.
“You are the one who forced me to start drinking alcohol because you were scared of sleeping with me. I would not ask for it when I am drunk. So you would bring beer to me and say drink so that I can rest as well,” she said.
In passing judgement, Magistrate Harriet Mulenga freed Chikanko from the marriage as she wished, and divorced the couple.
“Divorce granted no compensation awarded to either party, the house has been granted to plaintiff (Chikanko), car to be valued and proceeds shared equally while the court has granted the two parties joint custody of the children,” said Magistrate Mulenga.
