Wife Roasts ARVs To Fast-Track Hubby’s Death

A Mutare woman stands accused of roasting her husband’s antiretroviral drugs to fast-track his death and pave way for her boyfriend.

As a result, Farai Dambudzo experienced a diarrheal episode and had to be admitted to a local hospital.

Upon his discharge from the hospital, Dambudzo showed his wife, Agnes Magada, the exit door.

Magada then bolted to the Mutare Civil Court to apply for a protection order against Dambudzo so that she could stay at their matrimonial house.

Mr Xavier Chipato presided over the matter and advised Dambudzo to follow the customary route to divorce his wife.

Mr Chipato also granted Magada’s application for a protection order.

Said Dambudzo: “I cannot continue staying with a murderer. She wanted me dead so that she could stay with her lover, Sam Machika, at my house. She roasted my ARVs and I innocently took them thinking they had not been tampered with.

“I only realised that something was wrong when I started having serious diarrhoea. One of my daughters let the cat out of the bag and told me that her mother wanted to kill me. I brought her to this court to testify,” he said.

Dambudzo said Magada took advantage of the fact that she is the one who collects his ARVs from the local clinic.

Another time, Machika came and knocked at the couple’s bedroom window. When Dambudzo responded to the knock, Machika said he was checking on a child he had heard crying.

Magada then admitted that she was having an affair with Machika, adding that they were using protection.

As compensation, Magada allegedly begged her husband to take her 11-year-old daughter as his second wife.

The girl in question is from Magada’s first marriage.

Fortunately, Dambudzo turned down the offer.

-hararelive