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My Husband Gave Me Syphilis- Lusaka Woman
A 30-YEAR-OLD woman of Lusaka’s Chalala township narrated to the Lusaka Boma Courts how her husband of 14 years impregnated and infected her with syphilis but prevented her from getting treatment.
This is a case in which Senia Banda sued Paul Sakala, 36, for divorce after failing to cope with his adulterous behaviour and ill-treatment.
Banda told Principal Presiding Magistrate Mable Mwaba and Senior Court Magistrates Miyanda Banda and Dennis Mpundu that she got married to Sakala in 2001 and have five children.
“Sakala is in a habit of abandoning our matrimonial home fails to support us. I started to crush stones to ear money.
Banda told the court that in 2010, Sakala infected her with syphilis but refused to buy medicine or take her to the hospital.
I discovered I was pregnant while I was sick.When I went for antenatal I was found with syphilis and they told me to seek treatment with my husband but he refused,”she said.
Banda told the court that she gave birth without even undergoing treatment and that Sakala continued having sex with her while she was still sick.
“I fell so sick such that I even started bleeding. One day, I found a receipt detailing the purchase of drugs. This was when Sakala admitted that he was taking the medication because he had syphilis,” she said.
Banda pleaded with the court to grant them divorce.
Sakala, a carpenter, admitted before the court having infected Banda with syphilis.
But Sakala denied mistreating Banda and his children.
Passing judgment, the court granted the couple divorce. Sakala was ordered to compensate Banda with K15,000 with the first instalment of K1,000 followed by K300 monthly instalments.
The court also ordered Sakala to pay K300 monthly as child maintenance after awarding custody of the children to Banda.
Posted by Kunda (online)
on May 10, 2015. Filed under WEIRD.
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venga boy
May 10, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Ifi bantu fimo amano ububi kwati chi NEZ.
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 10:31 pm
kiki you must be my biggest fan. vote upnd mune.
umu bemba nkonko
May 10, 2015 at 2:22 pm
Aba bemba batila “ifimuti ifikula tafibula kukwesana!
monk
May 10, 2015 at 2:26 pm
plz u cant say “gave me syphilis” as if it was a package. look for beta terms.
Shimapuli
May 10, 2015 at 5:51 pm
Excellent observation. You ‘ve made my day!
king Solomon
May 10, 2015 at 8:35 pm
Its ok to say “Gave me “because Give=movement from one end to the other.
Gave=moved from one end to the other.Bashetani imwe masukulu nshi mwaileko?
king Solomon
May 10, 2015 at 8:37 pm
Though proper term is” INFECTED ME”.
Ken
May 10, 2015 at 8:40 pm
Try and replace “better terms” with “appropriate terms”. it will make it more different from the original term.
Chief of Grief
May 10, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Awe bane,nangu mufulo nifi!Fintufye vagina iba iya syphilis iwe waya wa somekamo nechena cha fundauka nomupowe wasansa.
dwinkable
May 10, 2015 at 3:59 pm
our courts r nt fair u cant charge somebody fifteen thousand kwacha to compazet a vulnourable person yet u order him to pay one thousand kwacha as first insalment and then three handred kwacha as monthly payment. Thats rubish.
dwinkable
May 10, 2015 at 4:04 pm
thats i cant go to a local court, its better to take the law into my own hands than wasting my time…
New Educated Zambia©
May 10, 2015 at 6:02 pm
People always look at issues with a narrow train of thought. Zambians let us learn to disect issues and analyse them fully. This case we have here is a simply a reflection of the pf and successive government’s failures to ensure sensitization on such diseases. The pf has really failed to tackle these levels of ignorance from the grass roots level. It is very embarrasing the levels of stupidity pertaining in a country that is supposed to be a middle income country. It is middle income on paper only for political mileage. We in the UPND will ensure sensitization is given priority. education will be our priority.
Zimandola
May 10, 2015 at 8:35 pm
Iwe chi sakala nyongo how can u make your wife to be a rubbish bin,in short icishyala?Condomise you fool who do you think is going to keep your 5 children?Ukufyala nako kwati nichi manager kanshi nichi carpenter..l even doubt anga nitu siphilis twekafye ala natu aids twine emotuli mayo
shakespeare
May 10, 2015 at 9:20 pm
Now wats the application of this Bemba marxim to the situation at hand?
tutu
May 10, 2015 at 9:25 pm
chikala waba itole
Dj cute
May 10, 2015 at 10:50 pm
Iye sorry mwandi
the3y3
May 11, 2015 at 9:25 am
Seems we have a lot of intelligent Zambians but how come we are still in the doldrums?
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 9:27 am
Because we have illiterates and visionless fools in power.
mwila
May 11, 2015 at 10:23 am
What evidence do you have that they are fools?
mwila
May 11, 2015 at 10:25 am
What evidence do you have that they are fools? Be reasonable mune
New Educated Zambia©
May 11, 2015 at 10:39 am
please follow current affairs and know how your country is performing and is pertaining in the corridors of power. When you have a government run by a president who believes in sangomas and attributes his health to being bewtiched what do you expect? is that not being foolish? why you have a government that has been caught red handed concealing a questionable loan that will be bore by the zambians what do you call that? do you now see why i feel they are foolish?
IF NOT
May 11, 2015 at 11:49 am
What would 300.00 monthly payments do to a mother with five children to take care of? stupid verdict