Students blamed for breaking homes.

By Ann Zulu

THE increasing number of boarding houses in residential areas of Lusaka is causing havoc in the families as wives complain that their husbands are cheating with female college students.

The wives are now calling on the authorities to close boarding houses, saying they are turned into sex venues.

“These students are all over the place hunting for men, especially in Kabwata. I have now caught my husband twice with one of these students, but the next time it happens again I will beat her up and teach her a lesson she will never forget,” said undisclosed source.

She indicated that most of female students go out with married men for money.

“They come here and eat all the money their parents gave them for tuition and up keep and they start flirting with married men to give them money,” she said.

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Tewani Mwale of Kalingalinga noted that husbands would lie to their wives that they were going to local pubs to watch the English Premier League Football, when in fact they were seeing girlfriends at boarding houses in the neighborhood.

“I think parents need to sit down with these students before they send them to school, most of them are good girls when they go home but when they are here they are here where there no parents they join their friends into misbehaving, I don’t think they can excel,” she said.

And speaking on the condition of anonymity one of the students said it was unfair for female students living in boarding houses to be blamed for breaking marriages.

“How can one tell if a man is married or not? I think the students are just scapegoats. If their marriages are not working out, they should not blame it on students, we are here for education that all. Moreover it’s not everyone,” she said.