By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE –

THE 53-year-old science teacher of Roma Girls Secondary School, who beat up his head teacher, yesterday appeared in the Lusaka Magistrate Court.
Principal Magistrate Aridah Chuulu has since granted Daswell Sichilongo a K1000 cash bail, after he pleaded not guilty to assault.
Sichilongo, who is facing one count of assault told the court, after the offence was read out to him, that he was not guilty.
Sichilongo is alleged to have on July 19, 2014 assaulted Emma Chakupalesa.
He was shown on Muvi Television on Saturday beating up Sister Chakupalesa, a Catholic nun, for locking up his house, over unpaid rentals.
The Catholic Church owns houses at the school and teachers pay subsidised rentals of K300 per month, but some teachers including Sichilongo had been defaulting.
Sichilongo would appear for mention on August 8, while trial would start on August 25.
Meanwhile, a 27-year-old  woman yesterday openly wept in court  as she narrated how her ex-husband allegedly  poisoned  to death  two  of her  children before  attempting to take his own  life after the court  dissolved their marriage.
Clara  Mbuki  of Chibombo  narrated  before  Lusaka -based High Court Judge Chalwe Mchenga sitting in Kabwe, that a day after the marriage  was  dissolved by  the Mungule  Local  Court, her ex-husband  called  her on her mobile phone  saying it was  the last time  he was  talking  with her  because  he was taking his and their two children’s lives.
This  is  in  a case  in which  Julius  Mucheki is  facing  two counts of murdering his children Julius Mucheki (junior) aged seven and Elika aged five, a charge he denied.
But Ms Mbuki who could not hold back her tears, told the court that the  accused  told  her that he was not happy  with the ruling of the court, which asked  him to be paying K200 for a  period of  K14  months for the support of the two children.
She explained that she was  shocked to learn that her two  children  had died  after drinking suspected poison which was mixed with a drink.
She  explained that she was married  to Mucheki for  more than eight years but decided  to seek a divorce over differences.
Another witness Christopher Sakala told Mr Justice  Mchenga  that  he  received  a call  from the accused  telling him that  he  had  given  poison to his  two  kids and that he had  also drunk the same.
Trial continues.