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A HARARE-BASED businessman is apparently on a warpath with his in-laws after he allegedly defaulted paying spousal maintenance to his estranged wife for over four years leading to the arrears ballooning to $8 100.
Blessing Munetsi Masedewe, proprietor of Gammatec Inspection Services is entangled in a bruising maintenance dispute with his estranged wife Manyara Masedewe who is accusing him of neglecting her by failing to pay $150 per month towards her upkeep while splashing money on his alleged mistress Celestine Tshuma. Manyara said Munetsia��s failure to pay maintenance was a deliberate move to a�?fixa�? her after she slapped his lover a�� Tshuma a�� with an $8 000 adultery suit.
She said in a bid to avoid paying the money, Munetsi quickly filed for divorce claiming their marriage had irretrievably broken down to the extent that there were no prospects for the restoration of a normal marriage relationship because the parties were no longer intimate. According to court documents in possession of B-Metro, Munetsi is likely to be charged with contempt of court emanating from his failure to settle $8 100 in maintenance arrears.
a�?I am the applicant in the maintenance case M809 /12 whereas my husband Munetsi Blessing Masedewe is the respondent.
a�?He was ordered by the court to pay a monthly maintenance of $150. He defaulted paying for 54 months that is from January 2012 up to date.
a�?He is now in arrears of $8 100. I am seeking assistance from the court since I am now a destitute and owing people a lot of money,a�? reads Manyaraa��s affidavit which she submitted at the Bulawayo Maintenance Court on 10 April 2017.A� In an interview Manyara told of her a�?anger and frustrationa�? against the police handling her case.
She said it was almost a month after she took the stamped affidavit from the court to Bulawayo Central Police Station acknowledging Munetsia��s failure to settle $8 100 in maintenance arrears but no action had been taken against him.
She said whenever she approached the police officers dealing with the matter it would be a sad story of a�?we will phone you once we get hold of hima�?.
a�?I dona��t know why the police are taking so long to arrest him after I took the stamped affidavit from the court acknowledging that Munetsi failed to settle $8 100 in maintenance arrears.
Whenever I inquired from the officers handling the case they always promised to phone me once they got hold of him,a�? she said while adding that she was in need of $3 994 to undergo an operation.
Explaining how their marital problems started, Manyara said:
a�?Problems started in 2012 when my husband relocated from Bulawayo to Harare where he was now staying with his girlfriend Tshuma following the death of her husband. I discovered their illicit relationship in 2013 when I busted them together in a car here in Bulawayo.
a�?What pains me is that Tshuma is my former classmate and I am the one who introduced her to my husband.
a�?My husband in a bid to cover up his adulterous relationship with Tshuma, was buying our two children, whom he was staying with, in Hararea��s silence by spoiling them with gifts and money,a�? said Manyara. She further said her husband was also threatening to sell their matrimonial house so that she would be a destitute.
Contacted for comment Munetsi, who was initially forthcoming, later hung up his mobile phone when this reporter told him he was from B-Metro.
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