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(NEWZIMBABWE) PM’s men storm Karimatsenga home

PM’s men storm Karimatsenga home
24/09/2012 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s representatives on Monday scaled the security gate at the family home of his estranged wife, Locardia Karimatsenga, in a bid to deliver gupuro, a divorce token under traditional customs, her lawyers have claimed.

The MDC-T leader is locked in a bitter divorce tussle with Karimatsenga who successfully petitioned the courts to block his marriage to new flame, Elizabeth Macheka last week.

Karimatsenga’s lawyer said Tsvangirai’s emissaries have in recent days visited the homes of her relatives in a bid to end the relationship and, on Monday, jumped the gate as her family home to deliver the gupuro.

“I can confirm that the PM’s emissaries went and jumped into the Karimatsenga homestead in Christon Bank. It is unthinkable that the PM’s emissaries exhibit such unlawful behaviour,” Everson Samukange told the state-run Herald newspaper.

“There was no one at the premises, except for the gardener. The modern thing they could have done was to knock at the gate rather than to jump. We are actually wondering what their motive was.”

Last week Tsvangirai’s representatives are said to have visited the home of Locardia’s aunt in Borrowdale where they left a letter in the letter box. Another letter was also hurled over the precast wall of Locardia’s house in Greendale.

Samukange said he was trying to contact Tsvangirai’s lawyers, Thabani Mpofu and Innocent Chagonda, over the letters as well as to discuss their request for an out of court settlement.

“I have been trying to get in touch with Advocate Mpofu and Chagonda over the letters, but I have not been successful,” he said.
Karimatsenga insists she is still married to Tsvangirai after he paid lobola to her family last November.

But the MDC-T leader says he only paid damages for making her pregnant and ended their relationship after it was hijacked by political rivals and state security agents to embarrass him.

Karimatsenga is also seeking US$15,000 in spousal maintenance from Tsvangirai but insists she has not wish to divorce him and is comfortable with being in a polygamous marriage since she is the first wife.

Labels: MARRIAGES, MDC, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI

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