From ALEX NJOVU in KitweA NDOLA man has told a Kitwe local court that his wife bit off his finger after whipping him with a cooking stick.
Charles Makalu, 36, of Mushili said, “This woman beats me, at one time she came home drunk and found me preparing food and told me to my face that ‘waya sana ndekuma lelo’ (you have gone too far, I am going to beat you today). That is how she started beating me.
“At one point she whipped me and bit me until she cut off my finger,” he said.
This is a case in which Makalu was sued by his wife Chola for divorce.
Makalu said he was admitted to hospital for about two weeks while his wife was arrested by police in Ndola after the incident.
The two got married in 2000 and have three children.
“My wife drinks beer and she does not respect me as her husband. I am shocked that she has brought me to court seeking divorce when she is still my wife. I have been pleading with her to join me in Ndola so that we can keep our children together but she refuses,” he said.
Makalu said he has lived alone in Ndola for about two years but that he started living with another woman last month.
“When I went to Solwezi to look for a job, I called to tell her I was coming back as I had failed to find a job but she warned me that I should go straight to Ndola and that is how I went to Ndola in fear.
“When she came to Ndola, she threatened to beat me and the woman I am living with. I have not rejected her and it is not true that I don’t provide for my children,” Makalu said.
In her statement, Chola, 31, of Luangwa in Kitwe admitted biting off her husband’s finger.
Chola said Makalu has neglected his family.
“We have a lot of problems in this marriage but things were well when we just got married,” Chola said.
“At one time he told me that he had gone to Solwezi to look for a job but I later discovered that he went to Ndola where he is living with another woman. I went to visit him with my sister and found the woman at his house,” she said.
Chola said Makalu does not provide for his children.
Wusakile local court senior magistrate Michael Makungu found Makalu with a case and rebuked him for attempting to mislead the court that Chola was still his wife when he was living with another woman.
He was fined K6 million in K250,000 monthly instalments.
“If you are biting each other now, next time you may bite your friend in a sensitive place and the results can be disastrous, it is just good that we divorce you before something bad happens,” Magistrate Makungu said.
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