Protection order to return to the bedroom

A MUTARE woman stunned the court when she revealed that she was booted out of their matrimonial bedroom following the granting of a protection order to her husband.

The agitated woman, Tafadzwa Masuka approached the same court applying for a counter protection order against her hubby — Allen Masuka.

Mutare magistrate, Mr Xavier Chipato presided over the matter, and granted the protection order.

Mr Chipato ordered Masuka not to stop his wife from visiting their grinding mill business and sleeping in their matrimonial bedroom.

He was also ordered not to avoid or ignore her.

The woman had argued that since Masuka was granted a protection order against her about three months ago, things had worsened in their matrimonial home as they no longer talk as usual as a couple or share the same bedroom.

“Your Worship, since my husband filed for a protection order following the fight I had with him on the day he refused to satisfy me in bed, he has stopped talking to me.

“He wakes up every morning and goes to our grinding mill business with the children. He never invites me to accompany him as his wife. We no longer go there together as a couple.

“Moreover, since then, we no longer share the same bedroom. He has never bothered to invite me back into the bedroom. He does not talk to me even in the house. That is what has angered me, and prompted me to apply for a counter protection order against him because that is emotionally affecting me.

“Recently, I was got a text message from the lady he was dating and sleeping with. I confronted him and he apologised, but the following morning he woke up shouting and threatening me with divorce,” she said.

Masuka however, dismissed the allegations against him as a figment of his bewildered wife’s imagination.

He described the allegations as barbaric. “What this woman is saying is a total fabrication because at no point did I ever stop her from going to the grinding mill business. She moved out of the bedroom on her own volition, and now wants me to invite her back.

“How can that be? If she wants to go to the grinding mill or return to the bedroom, I do not have any problem with that,” he said.