Tout offers $15 maintenance

Patient Sibanda, Court Reporter
A TOUT has offered $15 maintenance for his four-year-old daughter.

Jethro Sihoma of Old Lobengula suburb in Bulawayo told magistrate Tinashe Tashaya that he could not afford $150 demanded by his ex-lover Ntombizodwa Mafu of Iminyela suburb.

Sihoma told magistrate Tashaya that he was not a kombi driver as claimed by Mafu, but a tout realising about $5 per day.

“Your Worship I’m a tout and I make only $5 per day. I don’t own a kombi. The vehicle belongs to my parents who stay in the rural areas. It’s under my name though. I’m married to another woman and I’ve two children with her,” said Sihoma.

Magistrate Tashaya ordered Sihoma to pay $75 every month after noting that he was not being truthful about his finances.
Mafu told the court that Sihoma owned a kombi.

“I want $150 maintenance for our daughter. I’m not employed. He owns a kombi and he can afford to maintain his child. We’ve since separated. I know him as a kombi driver,” she said.