Wife stabs drunken hubby for failure to provide for family: Bizarre news in Malawi
A 30 year old man is battling for his life at Kasungu district hospital after he was stabbed on the head by his wife for failure to provide for his family.
Edna Mzingwitsa, Kasungu police publicist said the incident happened over the weekend and the wife has since been arrested and charged with grievous bodily harm, a serious charge for wounding another person.
Mzingwitsa said Gift Nkhoma had gone for a drinking spree without leaving money for his family.
“This irked the wife who packed his belongings and left the house for her parents home in protest,” said Mzingwitsa.
She said upon returning home, Nkhoma discovered his wife had left the house and decided to follow her.
When Nkhoma reached the woman’s home, the police publicist said, a fight ensued that led to the wife allegedly hacking the husband on the head leaving an open wound.
Nkhoma comes from Kasambwe village in chief Kabudula in Lilongwe but the family settled in chief Santhe’s area in Kasungu where they worked as tenants on a tobacco farm.
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Let me borrow PP’s Ken Msonda words: Kill the husband for abusing the wife. Azibambo a chi Firika kuzolowera kuzunza Mkazi ndi Ana pakhomo.
Becks, all women want to work but it is men who have created conditions for women not to work and be educated. Men, especially in Africa are interested in maintaining power and control over women and the only way to do so is to deny them empowerment tools so that women sit at home, look after children. As a socioeconomic construct it helps men have more sexual control including drinking excessively and sleeping with prostitutes while the women are at home. Indeed, this cultural context drains women’s and girls self esteem to the extent that they do bot aspire to… Read more »
Zochitika m’banja ndizambiri,lero akuoneka ngati iwowa ndiopusa,mawa zili kwa ife.
Mai sanalakwe choncho inu a police release her
@ Becks, it’s not even stupid and foolish. A man as head of his family is supposed to provide for his family. A woman is there to help. How can someone claim that he is heading the family which he can’t provide for?
It’s stupid and foolish to think that men and not women should be providing for their families
That is self defense from abusive, selfish and completely useless husband.
One of many in malawi.
This is self defense.
Ok
What a title!! Please, journalists, be serious. Story and the title do not talk to each other.
The facts are clear in the story, the wife stabbed the husband in self defense because she was evidently provoked and not because the husband did not provide.
What a title!! Please, journalists, be serious. Story and the title do not talk to each other.
The facts are clear in the story, the wife stabbed the husband in self defense because she was evidently provoke. Not because the husband did not provide.