A councillor in Livingstone who was ordered by the local court to compensate a woman by paying her K20,000 for impregnating her 20-year-old daughter has appealed against the ruling in the Magistrate’s Court.

Sakubiwa Nyambe, 38, has applied to stay a ruling by the Livingstone Local Court to pay Fatima Malambo K20,000 for impregnating her daughter Tracy Masempela in 2022.

The Nansanzu Ward councillor has also demanded, in his appeal filed in the subordinate court in Livingstone, for a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test to ascertain the paternity of the baby boy who was born on April 15 last year.

“The K20,000 compensation ordered by the lower court was just too high. I will request the higher court to order for a DNA test as I am doubting to be the [father] of the child,” Nyambe has stated in his appeal of February 27 this year and seen by the Daily Mail.

The case comes up for hearing on March 12 this year. Ms Malambo, 42, had sued Nyambe in the local court demanding to be compensated K30,000 for making Ms Masempela pregnant and the local court ruled in her favour on January 29 this year but reduced the amount to K20,000.
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The lower court heard that Ms Malambo discovered her daughter was pregnant for Nyambe, a man she had entrusted to deliver a passport to Ms Masempela when they met in South Africa in 2022.

Zambia Daily Mail