Stinginess costs Kafue man marriage
A MAN of Kafue will spend the rest of the freezing cold season coiling himself and hugging pillows under his bedsheets after his wife of 25 years shoved him deep in the dark pit of loneliness and bachelorhood owing to his stinginess.
59 year old Douglas Phiri was red-carded from the field of marriage by the Lusaka Boma Local Court after his wife Eunice Daka, aged 57, indicated that she could no longer stand her husband’s tight marking of his wallet and finances.
Eunice told the court that from as early as 2005, she began to notice traits in her husband that would guarantee him a lofty position in the Stingy Men Association of Zambia (SMAZ) but ignored the signs believing he would change.
Eunice told senior local court magistrate George Kaoma that despite her husband having received a handsome retirement package recently, she, like Sean Tembo at the ballot, had gotten zero share of the money.
“When my husband got his pension in 2018, l suddenly became talkative and annoying. He did not want to involve me in anything. He refused to tell me about how much money he got as his pension and started doing everything on his own,” Eunice told the court.
She begged the court to dissolve her marriage.
However, Phiri pleaded with the court to preserve his marriage, saying he still loved his wife.
Phiri told the court that the only reason he did not give her money was that he wanted her to return to the matrimonial home in Kafue after they separated following a misunderstanding.
Passing judgment in the matter, senior local court magistrate Kaoma dissolved the marriage and ordered Phiri to maintain Eunice with K850 monthly.
He noted that the marriage had experienced disputes leading to violence, hence the decision to grant divorce.
Furthermore, the court noted that Eunice had lost interest in the marriage and therefore the judge could not force the marriage to continue.
By Mwiche Nalwimba
Kalemba