A 36-YEAR-OLD married woman of Lusaka’s Midlewest area has proven to be a reason why the country needs the national day of prayer, fasting and reconciliation after the court heard that a brick layer used his skill to lay a seed in her because she was unsatisfied with her husband bedroom workouts.

Magistrate Lewis Mwewa of Matero Local Court listened to the testimony of 48 year old Thomas Mwale who was narrating the ordeal of his wife, Marvis Chileshe and how she would sleep with their bricklayer, under her husband’s nose, leading to the pregnancy.

Mwale said that last year, their house needed some plastering and building of a toilet, so he hired their neighbour, Evans Zulu, aged 55 who just stayed two houses away from theirs.

But unknown to Mwale, his bemba wife’s weakness were older men. So aside from building his toilet, Zulu also started helping him build his home as ‘a good Samaritan’ who stepped beyond his boundaries.

Each time Mwale left for work and Zulu was home building, Chileshe’s body would automatically vibrate just by watching a 50 year-old would energetically mix cement, until she started wishing that he would use his finishing trowel to plaster her body too.

And before their spouses could notice, the two were playing hide and seek in each other’s matrimonial beds, until Chileshe fell pregnant.

Mwale said the pregnancy shocked him because for a long time, he had never made his wife shout ‘apopene’ in bed, especially after his erectile dysfunction, which he suffered in 2016, which affected his bedroom permanence.

“So my wife started complaining that I was not satisfying her and she would compare me that they are better men who know how to touch her. later I was just supprised that she was pregnant and asked me that I should forgive her because the pregnancy was not mine and likely to have been for Zulu,” said Mwale.

He added that the couple had been ‘happily’ married for 11 years with three children together, with her fourth being the 2 weeks old baby belonging to Zulu that she just delivered.

As a co-defendant in the adultery case, Chileshe admitted to have been sleeping with her neighbour adding that she only revealed the truth about the pregnancy to her husband after a prophet prophesied to her that she risked losing the child or her life if she kept lying.

“ We stopped having sex in the house with my husband and that’s the reason why I got pregnant for another man. Zulu and i used to sleep at his house when his wife had gone for work, sometimes at my house or we would book a lodge . We had met several times and I knew him a long time ago,” said Chilufya.

And the man of the moment, Zulu who first began by denying the claim, later accepted and apologised to Mwale, adding that his wife didn’t know about the pregnancy until she received summons that her husband was sued for adultery.

‘I’m asking for forgiveness from Mwale for impregnating his wife,” said Zulu.

After hearing the statements from the three parties, the court findings were that indeed, Zulu was ploughing Mwale’s field, and even planted some winter maize, which he already harvested.

“Claim upheld, First defendant (Zulu) to compensate Plaintiff (Mwale) with K10,000 by k1,000 monthly while second defendant (Chileshe) will compensate him with K5,000 all effective October 30, 2024,” said Magistrate Lewis Mwale.