

He also used to make excuses all the time I wanted to go to his place to live with him,” Tembo said.

Our families started advising us to shift, but when I found a house my husband refused to shift. “At some point we stopped staying together. She told the court one day she and the husband went for prayers away from home and afterwards he left her there without any transport money. They told me they didn’t want to be the reason why my marriage would fail,” Ms Tembo said. He said we only wanted money from him.Īnother day my children heard us arguing and they decided to leave home. “One time he started accusing me of being after his money. One time when they returned from school, she found that he had locked the house and only opened it in the evening. Tembo said her husband always complained about her children. “He told me to be putting toothpaste on their tooth brushes in advance because they were wasteful,” she said. In 2018 my children came but my husband set so many rules that they were not free,” Tembo said. “I asked him if my children could come and stay with us, but he refused and told me he wouldn’t allow it.

Ruth Tembo, 44, testified before senior local court magistrate Gaston Kalala that when she got married to Ephraim Daka in 2014, she left her two children and went to live only with him for two years. A WOMAN of Lusaka’s Kamwala South residential area has divorced her cousin husband at the Boma Local Court because he did not love her.
