‘Violence does not pay’

RABECCA BANDA writes A LUSAKA man has been jailed two months for hitting his neighbour with a cooking stick. Appearing at the Magistrates court before magistrate Betty Malupenga was Derrick Sakala accused of assaulting Martin Nyangu on February 18. Facts were that Mr Nyangu was at home in Chainda compound when he heard noise coming from Sakala’s house. Sakala was attacking his wife and Mr Nyangu rushed there to stop the fight. While trying to separate Sakala from his wife, Sakala assaulted Mr. Nyangu who sustained a cut on his forehead and painful right rib. Sakala pleaded for mercy saying he was sick and there was no medicines at the clinic in the prison. He said he has a sister who is insane and if he is jailed, she will have no one to take care of her and he will not know her whereabouts. Magistrate Malupenga said Sakala deserved to be punished because he assaulted a man who went to stop him from beating his wife. She told Sakala that it doesn’t pay to be violent and it was wrong for him to beat his wife. The court jailed Sakala two months imprisonment. The Sun