ZAMBIA’s multiple award winning singer and music producer Elton Mulenga alias Yo Maps testified how businessman and blogger Elias Musyani referred to his wife Kidist Kifle a prostitute.
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Mr Mulenga also told a magistrate how Elias also threatened to send thugs to rape her in his presence and also abduct his daughter.
The ‘They Want Me down’ singer said he reached out to Mr Musyani but the accused was adamant and continued to make hateful online postings on his Facebook page.
“He [Elias] posted on his page that he knows the school my child goes to and he can send his thugs to kidnap my child and rape my wife in front of me because he knows the gym where my wife goes to,” the singer and businessman said.
This is in case Elias is facing two counts of harassment utilising means of electronic communication, contrary to section 69 of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act number 2 of 2021.
Allegations are that on April 8 this year, the accused, using a computer system, intentionally initiated an electronic communication on his Facebook page, Elias Musyani.
The electronic communication was allegedly intended to coerce, intimidate, harass or cause emotional distress to Ms Kifle.
Yesterday, Mr Mulenga, 30, narrated that on January 9, 2024, Elias posted Kidist’s picture and called her long face.
The court heard that on February 24, 2024, Elias made a Facebook posting where he referred to Kidist and a prostitute and witch.
Mr Mulenga narrated that on April 8, 2024, after he returned from Malawi, he saw a Facbeook posting on Elias’ page on which the accused posted a message “saying that my wife was being touched by other men”.
The artiste said he decided to phone the accused to find out what his problem was.
“We had a very mature conversation, and he apologized. On the same day, he posted that my wife had a long face”.
The musician said it was at this point that he decided to engage lawyers from Nsapato and advocates to help handle the matter.
“The following day, April 9, Elias phoned us in the morning, we had a conversation, and he decided to record it. He called my child a gumu gumu”.
The court heard that Elias then posted the audio conversation he with the celebrity couple on his Facebook page.
“On April 20, 2024, he posted on his Facebook page that he knows the school my child goes to and he can send his thugs to kidnap my child and rape my wife in front of me”.
Mr Mulenga said he took a screen shots of the postings and printed it out, which he presented in court.
He said Elias also made postings and picture of his wife and claimed she was being touched by other men.
“He tagged me”.
Mr Mulenga also produced a flash disk with an audio recording of the conversation Elias had with him.
The court will listen to the same audio when the case comes up in January for continued trial.
(Mwebantu, Saturday, 7th December, 2024)
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