Pastors’s wife pleaded with the Ganerton Local Court not to divorce her from her husband of eleven months until he cleanses her from abominable sexual practices he forced her to perform to bind their marriage. Beatrice Zulani of Zambia township feels her husband, Isaac Chituba spiritually tied her to his soul when she made her perform some sexual acts while the two were being intimate because she cannot live without him.

“Your honour, this man ruthlessly beats me and does not take care of the family but I fail to leave him. All I want him to do is to cleanse me from the sexual acts he made me perform in an effort to bind our marriage,” she told Ganerton senior magistrate Mutono Banda said. Zuluni and Chituba got married in 2017 and they do not have any children together but only those they had from their previous relationships.

In her defence, Zulani told the court that in the 11 months they have been together, they have only lived happily for three months. She accused her husband of not knowing how to take care of a woman because he fails to provide her with basic needs. Zulani accused her husband of beating her always and not buying clothes for her, despite her being his wife.

She said one day when they were getting intimate, Chituba asked her to perform some sexual act. “I feel my husband has tied my mind because of what we did in January this year while making love. Let him cleanse me so that I can have a peace of mind because I cannot live without him. He is always on my mind,” she said.

Earlier, Chituba, who is a pastor at a Pentecostal church in Kitwe accused his wife of always complaining that he did not take care of her.
He said he once gave her K1, 200 to start business but that she only bought vegetables for resell. Chituba also accused his wife of coming home between 22:00 hours and 23:00 hours from her business of selling vegetables.

He said one day, his wife received a phone call from a man in the night only identified as William but he later discovered that it was her ex-lover.
“My wife is too demanding. I had given her money so that she could open a makeshift store but she only bought vegetables from the money,” he said.
Magistrate Banda adjourned the case to a later date to allow Chituba to cleanse his wife of the sexual act she asked her to perform while they were being intimate.