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A Harare woman is demanding a break-up fee from her ex-lover who unceremoniously dumped her after nine years of co-habitation.
Auxillia Mutikinye wants her ex-lover Reason Mabena, a police officer at ZRP Donnington in Bulawayo to pay her for the nine years they had been staying together as “husband and wife”.
Mutikinye decided to seek compensation after Mabena took her to the Bulawayo Civil Court seeking a protection order against her saying he was no longer interested in the relationship because she (Mutikinye) had been verbally and physically abusing him.
Besides beating him up, Mabena claimed Mutikinye was also forcibly taking his money.
“I have been staying with Auxillia Mutikinye who has been verbally and physically abusing me. She has also been coming to my workplace to harass me. She was also forcibly taking my money and I want the court to assist me by stopping her from abusing me,” said Mabena while insisting that he had had enough of her ex-lover’s abuse.
Mabena courted Mutikinye’s anger when he said he was no longer interested in the relationship.
Mutikinye angrily responded saying if he was no longer interested in her, he should compensate her for the nine years they had spent together.
She said she gave Mabena the best years of her life and had been with him for nine years through thick and thin.
“I still regard him as my husband since we have stayed together for nine years. What happened is that when we came here in Bulawayo he took me to my aunt’s place saying since I was not in good books with his mother, who had arrived from UK I should briefly stay with my aunt until his mother returned to UK. I didn’t know this was a way of dumping me but he can’t dump me like that. I deserve to be paid.
“Despite the fact that he didn’t pay lobola; for the nine years we had been staying together he is known to my parents as a son-in- law. If he no longer loves me, he should take me back to my parents in Harare and pay me for the nine years we had been staying together,” said Mutikinye.
She said Mabena wasted her time with his false promises and should compensate her after he failed to marry her as he had allegedly promised.
Mabena dismissed his ex-lover’s claim arguing that Mutikinye refused to remain in Harare when he was transferred to Bulawayo.
Magistrate Adelaide Mbeure who presided over the case granted a reciprocal order in which he ordered both parties not to verbally and physically abuse each other.
The magistrate also ordered Mutikinye not to visit her estranged lover’s workplace and house.
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