The court gallery of the Lusaka Boma Court was sent into laughter after an over submissive, understanding and forgiving wife told the court that she asked her boss to send her salary into the account of her cheating husband, who later refused to give it to her.
Memory Muleya, 32 of Jack compound sued her husband of 14 years, Ronnie Makala, 37 a bus driver in Lusaka for the case of marriage reconciliation complaining that the two have not been living together.
The couple has been married for 14 years and have four children together.
However, their marriage has been in shambles right from it’s onset.
Muleya told the court that one year into their marriage and while the couple was still living in Monze, she caught her husband in the booth, sleeping with a minor who was only 14 years old, and since then, she began to witness a series of cheating from him.
She said after the defiling incident, she still forgave her husband.
Muleya added that the wheel of good fortune turned to her husband’s advantage and later found a job in Lusaka which made him leave her in the village, with a promise that he would return and get once he settled in the capital City.
But to her surprise, two years passed but her Makala was not showing any signs of coming back.
Muleya shared that she later learned that the capital City had also graduated her husband’s philandering was from ‘small letters’ to the leave up to the name of Lusaka promiscuity reputation.
She narrated that Makala actually found a new soulmate that knew Findeco House and was intending on marrying her. So to save her marriage, she relocated herself to Lusaka.
But was that a good idea? Well, certainly her husband was not happy, he continued to torment her with serial cheating.
“At one point, his uncle was admitted in hospital and I found him bed sitting with his girlfriend,” Muleya revealed in Court.
She said that he was at some point involved in a road accident which he used as an excuse to starve her of grown up games for two years while his instrument of power was in full swing serving his sidechicks.
“He impregnated another woman outside our home. And each time we slept together, he would tell his relatives that his manhood is not okay. I fell pregnant with our third child and he asked me to terminate the pregnancy. I refused to terminate the child. Two weeks later after my delivery, he was already sleeping with other women,” Muleya told court.
She disclosed that later on, she started a job as a maid and saved up some money from it, but that her husband asked her to use the money to pay for their house rentals for two months and invest in fish business with the rest of the money, but that he eat all her business money.
Muleya added that after that incident, she still didn’t take experience as the best teacher. She started another job as a maid and asked her boss to send her first salary into her husband’s account, a statement that made the entire court room to laugh, with some women murmuring saying that “siningachiyese (I can never do that).”
“All I wanted was for him to know that this is how much I make from the job I go to do. But my husband refused to give me that money. He told me that when I was sending it into my account, what was I thinking? We had to fight just for him to give me the money and even though, he stopped talking to me and eating my food over it.”
These problems saw him finally chasing her and their four children from their matrimonial home and later he re-married a Lusaka slay queen.
But in his defence, Makala told the court that he never chased her from his house, instead, she beat him up and damaged his manhood.
“She takes advantage of the fact that my accident left my back broken. So she beat me on my back and even pulled my manhood until I had a cut on it. I suffered for some time with it. Otherwise this is my wife and I love her,” Makala told court.
Going by the love confession, Senior Local Court Magistrate Mpundu Fwambo reconciled the couple.
“Tonga women know how to keep marriages, they are well trained to do so. This woman really loves you, you’re the one who just brings problems. Some husbands here in Lusaka don’t even know that their wives have jobs, to talk of their salaries. But because of her submission, she send her salary to you.”
“But your character will ruin this marriage and you’ll make the children to suffer because no other woman than her will keep them for you,” said Magistrate Fwambo as she reconciled the couple, advising them to live in harmony.
