Mutare tobacco farmer loses cellphone over unpaid prostitute services

Patience and Paul Kamwacha

A SEX-STARVED tobacco farmer from Mutare lost his cellphone worth US$65 to a sex worker after he failed to pay her for services rendered.

Paul Kamwacha (34) came to Harare a fortnight ago to sell his produce at Boka tobacco auction floors along with many other farmers. After failing to complete his transactions within the anticipated time, Mr Kamwacha decided to find a place to put up as he waited to sell his produce. He then met “a lady of the night”, identified only as Patience. She lives in Chitungwiza. The two “fell” in love. They stayed at Patience’s house for a week before Mr Kamwacha sneaked out of the house without paying for the services rendered.

Unfortunately, Kamwacha’s attempted game of deceit caught up with him on Friday when Patience returned to her ‘hunting ground’ at the tobacco auction floors. They met and a heated argument ensued. Ms Patience demanded  her dues from the farmer. Ms Patience demanded $150 for accommodation and sexual services for a week.

“We had been staying together at my house in Chitungwiza,” she said. “I gave him food. We had sex on all these days. “He promised to pay me US$150. But he sneaked out of the house on the last day he was expecting to be paid his cash. “Paul just boarded a car and left me behind, without paying a cent. All I need is my money,” she said.

She told H-Metro that she confiscated Mr Kamwacha’s phone in a bid to recover her money. “I took his phone. I will only give him back after he has paid me my money.”  Unfortunately, Patience did not know the value and type of phone she had confiscated. “But I am certain it is worth what he owes me.

“I would have shown you the phone but I am afraid that you will take it and give it back to him.” Mr Kamwacha had a different story. He said that he gave Ms Patience his cell phone as part of the agreement towards settling his debt. “I volunteered to give her my phone as assurance. Right now, I don’t have any money. But I will definitely pay her  as soon as my produce has been sold.

“It was a G-Tide phone worth US$65. “We stayed together at her house in Chitungwiza for the past week and I had promised to pay her when my tobacco has been sold. “But it was unfortunate that it took long before the money came out,” he said. Mr Kamwacha said that he owed Ms Patience US$100.

“We agreed I would pay her US$100 — not the $150 she is talking about. After all, I gave her US$5 after she claimed she wanted to top up on her rent,” he said. But Mr Kamwacha left people listening to the interview in stitches when he revealed he was head over the heels in love with Ms Patience. He said he was planning to marry her.

He said she had promised to introduce him to her parents in Mbare. “There is no problem here,” he said. “She suspected that I was running away from her.  “But I had gone to buy fertilizer in town. “This thing seems to be a big issue, but there is nothing much.

“That is the big problem with people who overlook things. We love each other,” he said. Asked why she was claiming the money when they were lovers, he said: “She thought I had run away. “But I have not run away. I was busy running around, looking for inputs. “My plan was to return home (to Patience’s house) after everything was in order.”