Clergy Impregnates Friend’s Wife After Friend Suffered A Stroke

A 65-year-old Mutare man is accusing his Muslim clergy (Sheikh) of being responsible for his second wife’s pregnancy after a long illicit affair between the two.

Cabo Juma, a Muslim devotee of Mozambican origin who suffered a stroke in 2006, bitterly complained that the sheikh, Nordine Banda of the church’s Dangamvura parish in Mutare has been in love with his wife, Jessica Chiweshe, for a long time and his efforts to seek redress within the church yielded nothing.

Juma said the affair led to the irreparable damage to his matrimonial relationship. Apparently, the two (Sheikh Banda and Juma) were very close friends at one time.

When contacted for comment, both his wife and Sheikh Banda dismissed the allegations.

“I really do not want to comment much on the issue and I think the chairman of the church is the one who can give you a comprehensive comment. I will not say much about the prevailing situation because I know the truth will soon be out. They are saying I impregnated her, but I know I am innocent. His aim is to have me removed from this place or else get me fired from the church, but all along I thought it will not get this far,” said Sheikh Banda.

In a separate interview, the woman in the centre of the storm, Jessica Chiweshe, doubted her husband’s mental stability.

“These allegations are a mere smokescreen meant to conceal the real issue at play. It has all to do with the politics in the church whereby at one point some people did not want the pastor while others stood by him. I happened to belong to the faction that supported the pastor. This is where it all started and later, my husband became so abusive to the extent that I sought refuge at the pastor’s place and that fuelled suspicion that I was going out with the pastor, but that was not true. In any case, if you managed to talk to Cabo Juma, do you think he is mentally stable? Since he suffered a stroke in 2006 he has not been the normal man I knew all along. I think the only thing that I have to do is to go to court and get a peace order against this man,” said Jessica before she declined to answer more questions.

When the Dangamvura Islamic Society chairman, Juma Yard, was reached for comment, he said:

“I am the chairman and have the powers to fire the pastor if he is wrong. If he is guilty of sleeping with anyone’s wife then he should be fired, but the problem is that we do not have any evidence to support the allegations. According to the Islamic law (the Shariah law), there is supposed to be convincing evidence for action to be taken against the perpetrator, but in this case there is no evidence,” he said.

However, in wide ranging interview last week, Juma, who is hardly fluent in Shona, maintained that the pastor and his wife were in love.

“I am deeply hurt that my sheikh, who also happened to be my friend at one point, could do this to me. It all started as rumours way back and I did not want to believe it. I started hearing about it when I was in hospital after I suffered a stroke. At times I would hear that the pastor visited my place without my knowledge and it appears he would take advantage of his knowledge on my whereabouts. He would invite my wife every Saturday to do the cooking at church unlike other women who were NOT invited personally.

“For example, on 27 March this year, when this issue became known, I lied to him that I was leaving for Sakubva, Devonshire where my first wife stays. He came to my second wife’s place, right at our bedroom window around 10.30pm and called my wife while disguising his voice. I pretended as if I was asleep and my wife (Jessica) abruptly woke up, almost unclad and went straight to open the door for him. She must have given signs that I was around, but I was already angry about the whole thing and I told them right away that I didn’t want to see the pastor again at my place.

“I also immediately banned my wife from going to Mozambique and Harare for business trips because that is where they would occasionally accompany each other. I know the pastor could be one responsible for Jessica’s current pregnancy since I am not the one. I’m no longer interested in her,” he said

Source: MyZimbabwe

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Husband Betrays His Wife, Abandons Her In Prison

Trust is one virtue that seems to be diminishing at a dangerous spate in many families and relationships in Nigeria these days. Our metropolitan cities are churning out couples who live with each under one roof but with less than 50% of the required trust that should exists between married people. 

 On Wednesday, a 33-year old housewife broke down in tears at the Apapa Magistrate Court as she was sent to prison because she could not produce her husband to face the criminal charges preferred against him in the court. The woman, Mercy Nwachukwu, stood surety for her husband, Peter, in a criminal case in the court.

 She signed the bail bond and assured the court that she will ensure that her husband attends the court until the matter is settled. Unknown to Mercy, her husband knew that he had a bad case and would end up in jail at the end of the trial. As a result, he quietly parked his belongings and abandoned his wife in Lagos.

 He has since relocated to an unknown location. He was even said to have boldly called her on phone to tell her that he has left Lagos because his case in court could land him in prison after trial. According to Mercy, he told her to sort herself out with the complainant and the court, if she still wants to live in Lagos.

 He switched his phone off and had not communicated with his family since then. After about eight adjournment and her husband still failed to show up in court, Mercy was arrested and charged to court under Section 104 of the Criminal Code Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

 She pleaded not guilty to the charges and the presiding Magistrate, Mrs O. I. Adelaja, granted her bail in the sum of N50,000 with one surety in like sum. But because she failed to meet her bail condition, Mercy was remanded in the custody of the Kirikiri prison in Lagos.

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