DIANA NSOFWA writes
@SunZambian
A WOMAN has sued her former lover in the Chilenje Local Court for restitution of household goods.
Niza Nyirenda sued Ceishas Mwiinga.
The two where appearing before senior local magistrates Ackim Phiri, Harriet Mbewe sitting with presiding local magistrate Patrick Nyirenda.
Nyirenda told the court they had lived together for three years and had a child together.
“There was violence and diseases when together. When we became lovers he found me working and after our daughter was born he came to stay with me. He is a married man and last year I left the house because we had an argument. I left and never went back,” Nyirenda said.
She said when she went back to get her belongings he told his maid not to open for her.
“He has refused to give me my things since last December last year. I told him that I want my personal belongings – kitchen goods, the children’s toys and clothes.
I even sent the pastor there but he was told ‘the same way the goods came is the same way they should come out’,” Nyirenda said.
When she called to meet him to get the goods he was never available.
Mwiinga told the court that Nyirenda had wanted to kill him one time.
“I bought her a car as a present, and we have known each other for over five years. She only had a few goods and I gave her money to buy a fridge and we started buying other household goods. I was the one who asked her to even look for a bigger house,” he said.
Mwiinga said by end of December last year Nyirenda said she was taking my daughter to visit in Mazabuka not knowing that was the end.
“I have not seen my daughter since then,” he said.
“Nyirenda told me she had a trip to Kitwe. That’s how I asked her to leave the car so that I could take it for fitness. She had even removed her suitcases. When she came back to Lusaka she called me saying she would never come back [home],” he said.
Mwiinga said Nyirenda would text him saying she wanted her things but he wanted her to collect them personally.
“The day I was home waiting for her she did not come and she wasn’t picking my calls. I have not been refusing her to get her things. She can get everything she wants as long as she is happy,” Mwiinga said.
The court proved the case and ordered Mwiinga to give Nyirenda her goods so that the only issue that would remain was custody of their child.
“You have been given two weeks [in which to give his former lover her belongings],” magistrate Nyirenda ordered.
