A UGANDAN businessman has asked the Chawama Local Court whether his wife’s boyfriend will also help pay the outstanding K7,500 bride price, arguing that they both had sex with her while he alone bore the cost of lobola. But the court has ruled that Moses Kaketu, 42, must still pay the full balance to his wife’s parents regardless of her infidelity, stating that bride price is owed to the parents and is not cancelled by adultery. Moses raised the question immediately after the court dissolved his marriage to Precious Mwanza, 26, of Chawama, before Magistrates Purity Chiyama and Lillian Kaira. He told the court that whenever his wife’s boyfriend beat her, the man would call him on WhatsApp video, and...

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