A 36-year-old woman of Isoka district in Muchinga Province is battling for her life in the district hospital after suffering serious burns after her husband allegedly poured hot water on her following a domestic dispute.
Gender and Child development deputy minister Esther Banda who is on tour of Muchinga province to check on the performance of women clubs, took time to visit the woman who is a victim of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the hospital.
Ms Banda who was accompanied by the District Administrative officer Alex Sinkala, Heads of government departments and PF women provincial Chairlady Charity Chifuna, among others was shocked and disappointed that the woman despite being in a serious pain is protecting her husband who inflicted the injuries on her.
Contrary to the police medical report that indicates that the woman was assaulted by her husband, the named woman told the Minister and her entourage that she fell from a table onto a boiling pot.
The woman later told the Minister that she was ready to disclose what really happened if she can be allowed to meet her alone in the office.
Hospital authorities quickly arranged for a closed door meeting where she again told Ms Banda that she had nothing new to tell her apart from her earlier testimony that she fell from the table onto a boiling pot.
Briefing the press outside the hospital ward, Ms Banda said the battle against GBV will only be won if affected people came out in the open to tell the public how they have been abused or injured.
Ms Banda said concealing information on GBV, defilement and incest cases happening in many homes is the biggest challenge being faced in many rural parts of the country.
She has since appealed to members of the public to be proactive in the fight against GBV, defilement and incest cases in their communities and ensure that such cases are reported to the law enforcement agencies for action.
She has also appealed to the police in the area to fully investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, a middle aged man from Mungwi district has been admitted to the male surgical ward of Isoka district hospital in Muchinga Province after losing his manhood in bizarre circumstances after allegedly having sex with a married woman.
The identified man of Makasa village in Mungwi district who had gone to Chief Chibale in Chama district to harvest timber is alleged to have had sex with a married woman and there after lost his manhood.
Hospital authorities are trying to preserve what has remained from the man’s private parts to enable him pass urine.
ZANIS
We dont report what happens to us because if we left our husbands, we will end up suffering with our poor children without any assistance from those who want us to report. As women, we suffer at the hands of our husbands but alas, who comes to our aid. Our fear is that if you put your husband behind bars, who will fend for us. You working women have an upper hand because even if he is behind bars, you will move on with very little problems. Sometimes you may even be happier than before. But those of us without jobs, we will just be suffering silently. That is the main reason why the isoka woman is not telling you the truth.
@ Defiled, I may not have enough, but I have seen as a man evil in what I physically so with my sister being battered by the father of her children. What can I do to help you and others? I am so tired of the system and the police trying to reason with a criminal in the name of a battering husband who has since I came to the USA, made my young sister look like a punching bag. That I don’t forgive. I told her husband he touches her again, he will be singing with the to the bees. So what I can I do to help because I have held my patience too long. This kind of gruesome crime against women has to stop, and any man who involves themselves in this crime, must be stopped at all costs. It’s not right anyway one looks at it. And we are bembas and he is tonga?
# 1 Defiled.
I agree with you no one can bite the hand that feeds him. But the way things are going on is not so good. Where is love that brought them together???
Guys are bad news, ati losing his manhood after doing a married woman. Ikali, anyone with infor where one can find such juju coz this bizarre thing must be juju induced.
The solution to encouraging the abused to report cases thereby ending this GBV is by empowering them. As someone has observed above, where will the poor woman go after the marriage ends with this abusive husband? Will the government provide for her maintenance? While I’m not defending GBV, the government must empower these women to ensure that they can stand on their own even after reporting these cases to police.
Can somebody trace this guy with the magic power of causing ‘disappearance’ of man’s manhood? We need his ‘knowedge’ to combat the spread of HIV in Zambia!!! What a wonderful remedy.
@Mina are you bemba ? losing and disappearing are two different words even from the spelling -assuming that you at least had your preschooling.
THE LADY WAS TOLD ON HER WEEDING DAY THAT A MAN IS NEVER WRONG SO SHE DOES NOT WANT TO DISTORT THAT.
I FEEL SORRY FOR HER AS THIS MAN WILL GO SCOT FREE AND JUST AFTER HER DEATH REMARRY AND NOT AT ANY MOMENT WILL HE THINK OF THE CHILDREN SHE HAS BY HIM. HE WILL JUST CONCENTRATE ON MATURING HIS NEW MARRIAGE. RUBBISH!!
Awe iyi yena ikali. Manhood gone!!! and what remains can not even pass urine ha ha ha !
Violence is violence no matter the source. The woman used an erroneus conscience to judge the case.The right thing must be done. That man must be charged. Later in life, the woman shall need inner healing as well, which will even be more difficult than the physical healing. So, concealing the real cause of bodily harm will even add more pain to her life when the reality dawns. “The truth shall set you free.”
Women stop living in abusive relationships in the name of children as 3& 5 puts it NO it doesnt mean when you get married you have no life of your own.i lived in this kind of life thinking that if i leave him no one will take care of my children God is faithful hes taking care of me and my children without their father’s support since my first was only ten and now hes 18 yrs.so dont use children as an excuse you depend too much on your husbands and too much low esteem in zambian women.comeon you are worthy if your husband cant see that then another man will see it but first you have to see that yourself.why stay there until he kills you and if you die who is going to take care of your children?
Iyi ndiye, “Stand by your man”
This is a poor villager and I think she is of humble education. It is unreasonable to expect a woman in such a position to move on and rely solely on faith, lets be realistic!
Why is in surgical ward, is he breeding? Bemba women are good at it, manhood ukufyampuka!!
Manhood lost????? Too bad Bro. He who plays by the sword shall perish by the sword.
The issue of gender based violence is a serious one. I feel for the women in our country. we men really need to change our attitude towards our women folk if meaningful develop is to be realised at a family level.
I however, strongly believe that that woman can still reveal what exactly happened to her, if only she is counselled by the local counselors or medical personnels especially the nurses. They need to show empathy when dealing with such a case in order for her to open up. The visit of a high profile team at a level of deputy minister made her shield her brutal husband thinking that her husband was going to be locked up there and then.
Women in the village are the bread winners, therefore see no reason why this woman cannot tell the truth other than negative culture taught during the so called kichen parties and matebeto. Women are taught to respect, protect husbands completely no matter what. We need to reform messages which goes with Matebeto, chilanga mulilo and the rest if we are to protect our girl child, wife and mother. For sure what can a grown up woman being doing on top of a table….. For the man losing his manwood sad for him, the bible is clear on the matter of doing people’s wifes, it says “A man would is after another man’s wife he should know that his life is in another man’s hands”
Iyi ya manhood ndiye data.poor guy after a siliza ana dabwa che ati yayamba ku chepa.he tried masturbation but his item still wouldn’t go up.finally when the item was almost completely gone he rushed to the hospital
“A man who is after another man’s wife he should know that his life is in another man’s hands”
Kwa George, you are the one who does not understand English. Losing something mysteriously, implies something disappearing, leaving people wondering. Amano ya kwa! Shaa!
The burnt woman should have been told by the minister that next time she maybe killed by the same husband she is protecting! This could have sounded cruel, but may have opened her dimmed eyes of the mind. Women, it doesn’t matter if your husband has built you a mansion and you drive a mercedes benz, being burnt or beaten is a NO, NO, NO! He will not replace your life if he kicks you in the wrong place and you die! Wake up women of Africa! African women must stop their obsequious and servile roles that they play in marriages. As for the man with a missing manhood, I will just say AMEN
My last sentence was to say AMEN to # 15!
The socialization we go through is very demeaning to the womenfolk. It has gone on generation after generation, until the spirit is actually fixed onto society’s psyche! It will take generations to wash it away! One way to do it is to give economic empowerment to the “weaker vessels”. Even when this is achieved, which in my humble opinion will take generations, society’s mindset will take long to change! However, we must start now by empowering women! After all, a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step!
Looks like Muchinga is full of imfwiti! First, Chief Kaponya unexpectedly won the elections, even with blatant lies. Now a chinyo that gobbles dicks!
@ZED POOR PEOPLE
Read between the lines – the couple were not fighting on top of the table. They were doing something else, that only a child will think is violent, when the woman tumbled onto the boiling pot. This was an accident and the randy husband should not be penalised. Ifintu filecitika!
The woman probably doesn’t have anywhere else to go so she will live with her abuser for life.
As for the gentleman who lost intwenu, wachenjela! ha, ha, ha
#1 Defiled – Get a job and stop whining! What has stopped from fending for yourself when other women manage it? Otherwise live with the choice you made.
@ defiled, ulikapuba…..wake up, gone are the days when a woman’s life was a shadow of a man’s life. get up, go out side and explore the world so you can take care of yourself and children….what will you do when your man is planted 6 feet under? For your own info nowadays, men prefer women who are able to bring something to the table…..don’t get me started.
You know fellas, I have seen this kind of evil before when I went home to Zambia last year where my youngest sister’s husband beat her to death, until my niece called me and I was so angry I had to take kids that would restrain me. In the history of my life, we as men tend to forget our natural strength, but when I saw my baby sister broken and battered by the father of her kids, it took my nephews and friend to jump on him before we got in the house. He should thank his stars he is not here in the USA. This crime against women by tujijili drank men has to stop. Women or girls for my nephews, are a part of our lives, that should be treasured and respect as mother maria, the mother of our saviour.
That juju is good. Let it come to Lusaka so that we can teach a lesson this hopeless chaps stealing vehicle parts in town. A good lesson. Namukulepula imbao bupulumushi bweka!!!
Mama yami!!!!What a lesson?So he wiill live without a manhood for life?Just discharge him and let him go to the witch doctors.He will have it back obviously.kaili they are all from the kingdom of darkness.
Maybe it was left intact inside that married woman. Bring her to hospital for check up. These black muntu they develop charms but fail to come up in the open and let others know what it is all about.