A 17-year-old woman of Chipangali district has allegedly taken her own life after her husband refused to eat Nshima with Okra that she had prepared.
Precious Shamuteka hanged herself in a barbershop after her husband refused to eat the meal she had prepared for him.
Eastern Province police commanding officer Limpo Liywali said the incident happened on Tuesday in Chief Chinunda’s area.
Mr Liywali said the husband of the woman, who is a Malawian national, refused to eat nshima with pounded okra because he preferred mice for lunch.
He said the man had informed his wife that he would only eat nshima after hunting for mice.
Credit: Zambia Daily Mail.
People may be amazed to this kind of headlines if it is possible for a seventeen-year-old girl to be a wife. It is possible, especially in a rural areas where the law is not the practice that much.
People in rural areas are not always reached by the law, the law it is the tradition, the law is the Chiefs and Kings. So it is possible, in the first place most of the people that are governing the rural areas, they are not educated.
They don’t even know the constitution, all they did to attain the position of leading the people is to be born in a royal family.
So there is such amount of ignorance in rural areas, these can’t be a surprise especially in certain areas. We are also talking of Zambia, an underdeveloped African country.
So things like this they do happen, it is time that the government refurbish their areas. The constitution must be able to cover even the areas that are being ruled by Chiefs and Kings.
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