By ALEX NJOVUA KITWE man has denied proposing love to his wife and stunned the court when he said his family in Luwingu arranged his marriage.
Thomas Chimfwembe of house number T 64 Wusakile township told senior local court magistrate Elita Bwalya that he did not know anything about his marriage to Rachael Banda of house number 2398 Buchi township in Kitwe.
This is in a case in which Banda sued Chimfwembe for divorce.
“I don’t know anything about this marriage, I never proposed marriage to her, it was my family which organised this marriage for me,” Chimfwembe said.
“I never proposed love to her, even when she came to Lusaka, I sent her back to the village,” Chimfwembe said.
And in her statement, Banda told the court that she got married to Chimfwembe in 2010 and that after living with him in Lusaka for three weeks he sent her back to the village.
“He called me on the phone while I was in the village telling me that our marriage was over, that is when I later learnt that he had shifted from Lusaka to Kitwe and got married to another woman and this is why I decided to sue for divorce,” Banda said.
And a wtiness, Eric Chileshi, 48,told the court that Chimfwembe went to the village to look for a woman to marry within the three days he was in the village.
Chileshi said he advised Chimfwembe that it was impossible to find a suitable woman to marry within three days.
“He left me with the task of finding him a wife. It is true that they never met when he came to the village but I worked with his sister to find Banda. The sister paid K50,000 dowry and another K50,000 for the parents.
“She also produced money for her transportation from Luwingu to Lusaka,” he said.
Magistrate Bwalya dissolved the marriage and ordered Chimfwembe to pay Banda K2 million compensation starting with K500,000 and then monthly instalments of K 150,000.
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