AT AN age where most men regret not having been role models to their children, an 89-year-old husband of Zambia Township is allegedly still proving his sexual prowess by engaging in multiple sexual relationships with women and occasionally throws used condoms at his wife. Rodrick Mwale, 89, was reconciled to his wife, Astridah Bwale, 60, whom he had sued for reconciliation on grounds that she sexually starves him.

Bwale alleged that her husband has no respect for her and that he throws used condoms at her face when he comes back from having sex with other women. “My husband throws the condoms that he uses on his girlfriend in my face and tells me that I am a worthless person,” she said. She testified that her husband tells her that she stinks and that there are beautiful women out there who are better than her.

She told the court that she has never seen her husband’s salary and he does not buy food for the family.

Bwale alleged that her husband only spends money on his girlfriends. Bwale narrated that her husband got his retirement package without her knowledge and that she has no idea on how he used the money. She also complained that her husband has in the last four years been sleeping at his girlfriend’s house and that it is the reason that they do not have sex.

Bwale also said that she and her family leave in a house without a roof due to the failure by her husband to buy roofing sheets. She told the court that she was willing to get back with her husband as long as he agrees to go for an HIV test. Problems between the couple with nine children and which has been got married in 1989 started in 1988 after her husband found a job.

Testifying earlier Mwale told the court that problems in their marriage started in 2015 after his wife stopped washing for him. He told the court that his wife also started sexually starving him and that the two have never had sex since 2015. Ganerton senior presiding m a g i s t r a t e N s a m a B a n d a reconciled the couple and ordered them to go for an HIV test.