WHILE some men refrain from claims that payment of dowry gives them rights to mistreat their spouses, a man from Kazungula feels entitled to abuse his wife because he paid for her hand in marriage.
Oscar Mungala, 25, a farmer, has turned his wife, Victoria Siachaba, into a punching bag because he gave her family a cow as dowry. Mungala was charged two cows and K800 out of which he paid one cow and the money in cash.
This was in a case Mungala was sued for divorce by Siachaba.
Siachaba complained that Mungala is a violent and adulterous man.
“I am fed up of being beaten whenever I ask his whereabouts. His behaviour is unacceptable. He spends nights away from home.
