A MAN has learnt the elements of adultery the hard way after being caught pants down in a trap set by his friend’s wife he was attempting to propose love to. A Boma local court heard that Lubinda Nyambe of Matero had counted himself lucky when his friend’s wife ushered him into her bedroom after making advances at her several times.

But things turned sour when moments later his friend Bruce Nkole appeared from under the bed to burst his attempt at sleeping with the woman. In her testimony, Nkole’s wife said she had told her husband about Nyambe’s lusful behaviour towards her but he could not believe her. She told the court that it was at that point that she convinced her husband to come up with a plan to trap his friend Nyambe. Nkole, who drugged Nyambe to court for adultery, narrated that while he was hiding under the bed he heard his friend asking his wife to caress his manhood before they could have sex. Nkole said most of the times he works at night leaving his wife and child at home.

He said on February 21 this year he was doing his night shift and left his wife home. Nkole told the court that when he went home the following morning, his wife Patricia Phiri informed him that his friend, who is also their neighbour, had been enticing her with food. “I did not believe my wife because Nyambe has been my friend for so many years and we do everything together.

We made a plan and when Nyambe came to my house thinking I had gone for work holding a tray of eggs, my wife asked him to go with her in our bedroom,” he said. Nkole said it was at this point that he went and hid under the bed so that he could catch his friend red handed. “My friend started telling my wife that he will be giving her food, and he will buy her chicken the following day.

He undressed and started asking my wife to start playing with his manhood because he enjoys it,” he said. Nkole told the court that he got furious, took Nyame’s clothes and started beating him. In her testimony, his wife Phiri said her husband’s friend had been proposing love to her and that her husband would not believe her because the two were close friends. She said she came up with a plan so that the two could trap Nyambe. “Nyambe has been on me.

He used to bring me food but I thought he was doing so because of his friendship with my husband. He would bring pork, eggs and chicken,” she said. In his defence, Nyambe denied the allegations saying that Nkole’s wife took advantage of his wife’s absence to go and ask him for relish. He said she told him that her husband did not provide food for her. In his judgment, Magistrate Gaston Kalala noted that the couple trapped Nyambe. “I have taken note that Nyambe undressed and slept on his friend’s bed, but he did all this because he saw a weakness in your wife. A man can only pursue a woman who has proved to be weak.

You set a trap and he was motivated by the weakness your wife had shown him. There is no adultery in the matter because it was a trap,” he said. Boma Local Magistrate Kalala dismissed the charge of adultery