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Man refuses to pay $100 maintenance
20 Apr 2014 at 17:17hrs | Views
A CHIKANGA man caused a scene at the Mutare Civil Courts last week after giving a string of inconsistencies in his frantic efforts to evade the $100 maintenance which was being demanded by his ex-wife.
Appearing before Mutare magistrate Ms Anniah Ndiraya, Solomon Rafemoyo pretended to be confused when the magistrate asked him the amount of money he was prepared to pay for the upkeep of a two-month-old baby he sired with Abishell Gondo. "Right now I cannot respond to that question because there is bereavement in my family. I am not ready to deal with this issue now. I need more time," said Rafemoyo. The magistrate, however, rubbished Rafemoyo's excuse saying he should answer questions directed to him since he was able to attend the court session despite the bereavement in his family. "Since you are already here, you can go ahead and tell us how much you can afford to pay and after that you will be free to go back and attend the funeral," said Ms Ndiraya. Seeing that his first move had hit a dead end, Rafemoyo made another attempt saying, "Your Worship, I cannot pay maintenance for this child because the child is not mine. I never slept with her and so I cannot give her any money." Asked to respond, the applicant, Gondo, told the court that she had cohabited with Rafemoyo from January to about September last year, adding that when she left him she was already pregnant. Rafemoyo, however, vehemently denied the allegations and labelled Gondo a liar. He said she was a gold digger who wanted to rip him off. Mrs Ndiraya cleared the confusion when she called Rafemoyo's mother, Mrs Martha Rafemoyo, to testify. "These two were staying together since last year. Though they had misunderstandings over an alleged extramarital affair between Gondo and a church elder from their church, they said they had amicably solved it. May this court allow me to ask my son this question: ‘Hauchadi mukadzi here, mwanangu (are you saying you no longer love your wife)'?," asked an aggrieved Mrs Rafemoyo. In her ruling, Ms Ndiraya told Rafemoyo that it was his right to go for a paternity test to determine whether the child was his or not.
She ordered him to pay $50 while waiting for the paternity tests and results.
Appearing before Mutare magistrate Ms Anniah Ndiraya, Solomon Rafemoyo pretended to be confused when the magistrate asked him the amount of money he was prepared to pay for the upkeep of a two-month-old baby he sired with Abishell Gondo. "Right now I cannot respond to that question because there is bereavement in my family. I am not ready to deal with this issue now. I need more time," said Rafemoyo. The magistrate, however, rubbished Rafemoyo's excuse saying he should answer questions directed to him since he was able to attend the court session despite the bereavement in his family. "Since you are already here, you can go ahead and tell us how much you can afford to pay and after that you will be free to go back and attend the funeral," said Ms Ndiraya. Seeing that his first move had hit a dead end, Rafemoyo made another attempt saying, "Your Worship, I cannot pay maintenance for this child because the child is not mine. I never slept with her and so I cannot give her any money." Asked to respond, the applicant, Gondo, told the court that she had cohabited with Rafemoyo from January to about September last year, adding that when she left him she was already pregnant. Rafemoyo, however, vehemently denied the allegations and labelled Gondo a liar. He said she was a gold digger who wanted to rip him off. Mrs Ndiraya cleared the confusion when she called Rafemoyo's mother, Mrs Martha Rafemoyo, to testify. "These two were staying together since last year. Though they had misunderstandings over an alleged extramarital affair between Gondo and a church elder from their church, they said they had amicably solved it. May this court allow me to ask my son this question: ‘Hauchadi mukadzi here, mwanangu (are you saying you no longer love your wife)'?," asked an aggrieved Mrs Rafemoyo. In her ruling, Ms Ndiraya told Rafemoyo that it was his right to go for a paternity test to determine whether the child was his or not.
She ordered him to pay $50 while waiting for the paternity tests and results.
Source - manicapost
