The ManicaPost
Tendai Gukutikwa Weekender Correspondent
A JOHANE MARANGE Apostolic Church member has turned his wife into a punching bag for refusing to cover her head with a doek.
The woman is also in hot soup over her “poor” choice of friends. She is now seeking a protection order against her husband.
Leighton Momberume, who was last week hauled to Mutare Civil Court by his wife Judith Marowa, left the gallery in stitches when he confessed to “disciplining” his wife for her failure to cover her head with headgear.
“We are proud members of the Johane Marange Apostolic Church. However, my wife seems to be living a double life. In my absence, she throws away the doek and goes around showing off her head to everyone.
“Your Worship, according to our church doctrine, a woman’s head is a sacred body part and only her husband is allowed to see it, yet she goes around exposing it. This really drives me mad,” he said.
Momberume also told the court that he is against Marowa’s choice of friends as most of them are either male or single women.
“Her friends are either single mothers or men. A respectable married woman should not do that. It is unacceptable Your Worship. I have tried on several occasions to warn her about this but she won’t listen. This is because of her friends’ influence,” he said.
Momberume also claimed that his wife left home before dawn and came back at night.
“She does not even cook for me,” fumed Momberume.
But Marowa told the court that Momberume was a violent man who stalked her at her workplace.
She also said Momberume was threatening her with unspecified action, ordering her to stop spending time with her friends.
“He is jealous and possessive, Your Worship. I have had enough of his beatings and insults. He also insults my friends,” complained Marowa.
Mutare magistrate Ms Nyasha Kuture granted Marowa the protection order and barred Momberume from assaulting, insulting and threatening his wife.
The protection order is valid for five years.
