HOUSEWIFE FINED FOR CALLING HER MOTHER IN LAW “CHIHULE”
Written by Millennium on September 27, 2019
MUTINTA MULAYE writes
@SunZambian
A WOMAN of Lusaka’s Luangwa Township has been ordered by the Boma Local Court to compensate her mother in law with K1, 000 for insulting her.
Joyce Mwansa, 47 of Northmead sued Jessica Banda, 23 so that she could be disciplined for disrespecting her.
Mwansa told senior local court magistrate that last week on Tuesday she went to went to bed early. She was however wakened up by some people who were banging at her gate loudly with stones.
“When I went to check what was going on I found Jessica and four of her friends. I asked what was happening and she said she was looking for my son,
“I told her that he was not around but they could not believe what I told them. So I invited them to enter the yard and look for him but they refused,” she said.
She said Banda then started explaining how she had been beaten up by her husband, Mwansa’s son.
She said when she asked if she could talk to her son alone privately, they all refused.
“Jessica then said ‘ivi vima imbwa vilibe nzelu, vichita chabe chigololo’. Her and her friends were all upset and started shouting, calling me dull and shouting ‘chimbuya chihule chilibe nzelu’,” she said.
She went back in the house after her other son came to get her but Banda and her friends continued insulting and shouting and even opened the gate.
In defence Banda denied insulting her mother in law.
She said she went to her mother in law’s house because her husband had beaten her.
“I followed my husband to talk to him because I found him with another woman and he beat me and punched my eye. He disowned me and so I went to my mother in law’s house,” she said.
She said she asked to see her husband but she did not go there to insult or offend her.
“It was my friends who were insulting her but I didn’t say anything bad to her and I didn’t insult her,” she said.
The court found Banda wanting because she admitted that her friend’s insulted her mother in law.
The court found it likely that she also insulted, especially out anger of being beaten by her husband.
Magistrate Nyambe ordered her to compensate her mother in law with K1, 000 and restrained her from ever going to her mother in law’s house.
