MUTINTA MULAYE writes
@SunZambian
A MAN of Lusaka West has failed to get a restraining order against his ex-wife at the Boma Local Court to stop her from going to his workplace to embarrass him.
This was a case in which Emmanuel Mulenga, 47 sue Grace Mwanza, 45 of Kanyama to stop her from going to his work place to humiliate him.
“We divorced in 2016 but she is always coming to my workplace bringing summons because we have children together. When I tell her I don’t have money, she gets upset and says very inappropriate things,
“It’s an open office of about five people. I don’t want her to be coming to my work place and she also needs to have a limit of how many times she calls me. She calls me too much and at the wrong times,” Mulenga said.
In defence Mwanza said Mulenga was unsupportive of their children and she could not take summons to his home because his relatives refused her to do so.
“Two of the children are out of school because he has not been paying school fees. I only follow him to take summons because he does not follow what the court ordered him to do when we got divorced,” she said.
She said when they divorced, she was given custody of the children. Mulenga later got married and sued her for custody and got the children.
“They were mistreated by their step mum so all ran away from his home and came back to me. I took summons for child maintenance to his workplace where I was told he refused to receive them,
“I will stop approaching him when he starts doing what was needed of him over his children,” she said.
The court found that there was no proper coordination between the two on how to keep the children.
The court also found it difficult to put a restraining order because there are children involved.
Mwanza and Mulenga were advised to communicate effectively only when it was necessary.
