A love triangle in Lusaka took a tragic turn when a baby mama attacked her lover and his wife before later suing the wife in court.
According to media sources, Phenya Mbangwe, 29, of Lusaka’s Kasupe region, was sued by her husband’s self-appointed second wife, Beauty Mulenga, 23, of Kasupe, in Matero local court for compensation for insults on the grounds that she had insulted her.
“She is my elder sister in marriage (Amai gulu) I got married to her husband In 2021 but she then started laughing at my breasts and said my child who is one month old will never grow. Every time when we meet she shouts at me with her sister I am even scared of using the bus station,” Mulenga said.
Unknown to the court, Mulenga had cooked up the story to escape the hands of justice as the family to her baby daddy who she said was also her husband, threatened to sue her to court for insulting the family elder.
According to reports, due to the problems that Mulenga had caused in Mbangwe’s home, her boyfriend’s eldest brother in the family decided to follow her and seat her down together with the baby daddy, to find out if at all his young brother had intentions of marrying her as well.
But before they could even enter her house, she showered them with Nkana FC supporters’ insults, calling her supposed elder brother in-law a barking male in her native language, Bemba.
So when she heard that they wanted to bring her to court, she rushed to buy a summon first.
In Court Mbangwe acknowledged that Mulenga was her husband’s girlfriend.
“One day, I was walking with my husband when we met her by the road side. She saw us, she went and grabbed my husband by his shirt and asked him why he doesn’t pick her calls, and she started to undress both my husband and I with insults and embarrassed us in the compound. I wanted to beat her, but my husband stopped me.”
“The next day after the attack, my husband told me that he was going for work at the mine but instead, went to sleep at her house and even stole my things to go and give her. I have been married to him for 11 years and I was hurt that he would steal my things to impress a girlfriend secretly,” Mbangwe said.
And in her submission, she denied ever insulting Mulenga and said all she wanted was for her to stop publicly undressing her and her husband with insults as the reason why she buys and wears clothes is to hide her nakedness.
“She should also stop undressing my husband because I buy him clothes to cover him up. If she doesn’t respect him, I respect him as the father of my four children.” Mbangwe said.
But in Mulenga’s submission, she said she was fighting with her ‘husband’ and not Mbangwe, as she has the rights to do so and was asking her baby daddy over his plans towards her.
Meanwhile, the cause of the chaos and drama, unemployed Phenious Mpangula, 35, who came to court reeking of Kachasu said the two were all his women as he managed to feed them.
“But the young one doesn’t count or respect the older one. She doesn’t even listen to me as she insults us,” he complained.
While the family asked Mpangula to tell them his plans for Mulenga as they were tired of sitting them down, Magistrate Lewin Mumba dismissed the case for compensation for insults as the defendant was found with no case to answer.
“The Plaintiff is an aggressor and is stealing the friend’s husband. So the court has dismissed this case,” said magistrate Mumba.
