Timothy Magure was dragged before Mutare Civil court by his ex-wife, Shorai Margaret Chapeyama, for failing to make maintenance payments for their baby.
Chapeyama was demanding $150 a month.
However, Magure disputed the paternity of the baby, saying Chapeyama threw him out of the house after a dispute and told him he wasn’t responsible for the pregnancy.
“She openly told me that I was not father of this child,” said Magure.
Magure told the court he could only afford $15 as maintenance since he was an airtime vendor at Dangamvura and had other four children.
“$150 is too much. I make a profit of $50 a month,” he pleaded. Chapeyama denied ever saying that Magure was not the father of the child.
“We had an argument but I never said the child was not his,” said Chapeyama.
Magistrate Sekai Chiwundura ordered Magure to pay $30 as interim maintenance pending the results of the paternity test, which should be submitted to the courts.
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