A Pentecostal pastor of Lusaka, Zambia, has abandoned his heavily pregnant wife to marry a sweeter congregant after only seven months of marriage.
According to Zambia Observer, just last October, Pastor Penias Mbewe of Miracle Pool Bedsider Church stood before his congregation vowing to be with Josephine Mbewe forever, in good times and in bad times.
Soon after their wedding, Pastor Mbewe impregnated his wife, but before the couple’s child could be born, he was back in front of the church exchanging marital vows with another woman, a congregant of his.
Marrying twice in the same church in a space of five months was easy for Mbewe as his spiritual father, Pastor O’Brian Kandesha who is the overseer of the church was at hand to bless both his marriages.
Mbewe waited for the day his wife was absent from church to have another marriage blessing.
Finding his new wife, Margret Makondo juicier, the pastor ran to the Matero Local Court to plead that his marriage with Josephine be dissolved immediately.
As for the reasons he was divorcing the woman who is four months away from delivering their child, Pastor Mbewe said he could no longer leave with her jealous tendencies and lack of trust in him.
In her testimony, Josephine said she still loved the clergyman and would have loved their marriage to continue.
Josephine told the court that the first few weeks of her marriage were blissful but the union became strained when her husband began spending nights out of the matrimonial home and denying her sex.
She told the court that after an investigation, she discovered that her husband had secretly
married a prayer warrior from her church.
But Pastor Mbewe, who was accompanied to court by his spiritual father insisted that he did not want to have anything doing with Josephine.
Handling the case, the magistrate, Harriet Mulenga, upheld the claim for divorce and ordered that Mbewe compensate Josephine with K10,000 starting with K2,000.
She also ordered that he maintains her pregnancy with K500 monthly until she delivers.
“What kind of men of God are you? What kind of message do you preach at your church? How can you lie to a woman you married on your own and on top of that, dump her when she is five months pregnant? And you Pastor Kandesha, how can you bless a man twice for marriage despite knowing that he is married? What you have done to this woman is not fair,” Mulenga said.
Upon hearing the magistrate’s comment, Kandesha claimed that he was never aware of Mbewe’s first marriage.
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