LAWYERS who are representing adored musician and songwriter Yo Maps’ wife, Kidist, have asked the Zambia Police Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) not to grant bail to the businessman and blogger who allegedly threatened to harm the singer’s wife.

Nsapato Co. Advocates have urged the State not to grant Elias Musyani bail considering the serious threats he made against Kidist who he threatened to send thugs to rape and also to abduct her daughter, a minor.

They are afraid that is he is left on the loose, Mr Musyani can execute the serious threats he had made on Kidist and her family.

“The accused cannot be left loose and unsupervised, let alone with possible access to the complainants against whom he has displayed cryptic venom of hate,” the lawyers state.

“In addition to all the other fears, the accused has started obliterating his digital footprint including the incriminating social media posts. This will heavily prejudice the State if allowed to continue,” the lawyers submit in the letter also copied to Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority director general Choolwe Nalubamba.

They add that consideration of any possible bail should consider the nature of the accusations, evidence and safety of the complainants and likelihood to temper with witnesses.

The lawyers add that a critical interrogation of the social media posts, recordings made by the accused and his demeanour at the time of his arrest last Friday creates an engima that of possibilities as to what he can do.

“His demeanor heavily suggests a deep sense of self-conceit and misdirected pride so much that it is very difficult to predict what he can do in view of his threats [which include abduction],” the letter reads.

They add that from the time Mr Musyani was arrested, the Mulenga family have briefly felt safe from any possible attack as repeatedly warned by the accused.

“Our clients have lived in fear and, precautionary their child stopped going to school for fear of execution of threats by the accused. We now write to express our clients founded fears and genuine concerns if the accused is released on bail,” the letter reads.

Kidist has dragged to court the accused over alleged cyber bullying and threatening to send people to rape her.

In a Facebook posting last week, Musyani allegedly issued threats against Kidist and her family.

Musyani allegedly threatened to send his “thugs” to sexually abuse the musician’s wife in the presence of her husband and also abduct the couple’s daughter.

“We know the gym she goes to and what time she leaves!!!…she doesn’t even have body guards,” part of the posting on Musyani’s page read.

Kidist filed a criminal complaint against the blogger before the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court where the accused is facing five counts of harassment utilising electronic means, contrary to Section 69 of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act of 2021.

(Mwebantu, Wednesday, April 24th, 2024)

A woman of Lusaka West has sued the State seeking K10 million compensation after doctors allegedly left a surgical napkin in her stomach after an operation.

Misozi Phiri complains that after an operation to remove her womb which had fibroids, medics allegedly left a surgical napkin which gave her an infection.

“When she tried to excrete, she felt an object coming out that did not feel like faecal matter, she feared it could be an intestine or an organ,” court documents read.

Ms Phiri submits that a senior nurse was able to pull it out and identified it as surgical napkin.

She now wants the Lusaka High Court to order a Dr Mushota and the State to compensate her K10million damages for immense physical pain and deterioration of her health.

The woman also seeks more damages for a near death ordeal and removal of her womb.

The plaintiff further seeks compensation for emotional and mental distress in her statement of claim where she cited Attorney General and Dr Mushota as respondents.

She submits that in May 2022, she fell ill and fainted at home and was later rushed to Matero Level One Hospital where Dr Mushota examined her and diagnosed her with high Blood Pressure (BP).

Ms Phiri says she was given medication to take daily for a week but she reacted to the BP medicine as her body began to swell.

The plaintiff later notified the defendant about the swelling of her body and she was accordingly advised by medical personnel to discontinue the course.

She adds that Dr Mushota directed her to take an ultrasound scan and go to the laboratory for a full blood count, to which she obliged.

Upon collecting results from the tests, two masses were discovered on both the right and left side of the plaintiff’s uterus weighing 13.5kilogrammes and 6.5kg.

Ms Phiri says she was advised that owing to the size of the masses, she needed to undergo an operation to be proceeded by blood transfusion since her haemoglobin was low.

After her blood was boosted, she booked for an operation set for September 11, 2022.

Ms Phiri says she was later admitted to Matero Level One Hospital on 11th September, 2022 and she was mildly sedated.

“The doctors identified the masses in the plaintiff’s body as fibroids,” she adds.

Doctors later told Ms Phiri that her uterus had suffered a lot of damage from the removal of the fibroids and she was advised that it was best to remove the uterus to avoid future complications.

The uterus was removed by doctors at Matero Level One Hospital who were led by Dr Mushota from Levy Mwanawasa Hospital.

“The plaintiff was discharged two days after the operation and she went home completely unaware that a surgical napkin had not been taken out from her body after she was operated on”.

But on October 20, 2023, the woman experience excruciating pain in her abdomen which prompted her to return to Matero Level One Hospital where she was given pain killers.

Ms Phiri went to the hospital four more times because the pain was unyielding, before it was later discovered that she had pelvic inflammatory disease.

She later sought medical attention at the University Teaching Hospitals where an examination revealed that she had an object in the intestines and that she needed to undergo an operation.

Four days before UTH doctors conducted a bioscope on her, the plaintiff, while in severe pain and unable to defecate normally, went to use the lavatory.

But when she tried to excrete, she felt an object coming out that did not feel like faecal matter, she feared it could be an intestine or an organ.

A senior nurse was able to pull it out and identified it as gauze or surgical napkin”.

“It was apparent that the infection and smell she suffered was as result of the surgical napkin which medics at Matero Level One Hospital failed or neglected to remove after the September 12, 2022 operation”

(Mwebantu, Saturday, April 20th, 2024)

ADORED musician Yo Maps(Elton Mulenga)’s wife Kidist Kifle-Mulenga has dragged to court the blogger and businessman who allegedly bullied her on Facebook.

Mrs Mulenga wants the law to punish Elias Musyani after the businessman caused her mental distress by allegedly threatened to send people to her house to rape her.

She complains that the blogger made several posts in which he made threats against her, her husband and their daughter who is a minor.

This is according to a criminal complaint the singer’s wife has filed against Mr Musyani in the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court.

She wants him to answer to five counts of facing five counts of harassment utilising electronic means, contrary to section 69 of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act of 2021.

Particulars are that on April 15 this year, Musyani, intentionally initiated electronic communication through Facebook posts.

He allegedly used electronic means with intent to intimidate, harass and or cause emotional distress to Ms Mulenga.

In the second count, allegations are that between April 14 and March 20 this year, the accused intentionally initiated electronic communication through Facebook posts.

The posts were meant to intimidate, harass and or cause emotional distress to Ms Mulenga.

In counts three to five, the accused, between April 13 and March 16, the accused intentionally initiated electronic communication through Facebook posts meant to intimidate, harass and or cause emotional distress to Ms Mulenga.

In one of the Facebook posts, Mr Musyani, a blogger, allegedly issued threats against Ms Mulenga family by threatening to send his thugs to sexually abuse the musician’s wife in the presence of her husband who he referred to as “mabonzo”.(skinny).

He allegedly also threatened to abduct the couple’s daughter.

One of the postings read: “We know the gym she [Ms Mulenga] does to and what time she leaves!!!…she doesn’t even have body guards”.

Mrs Mulenga submits in her court documents filed by her lawyers, Nsapato & Co. Advocates, that between March 1 and April 15 this year, the accused made several social medial posts on his Facebook page using his personal account.

The complainant says the accused

“made the posts on his personal account namely Elias Musyani that I am a prostitute, an evil step mother, and he has gone as far as threatening rape on me and abduction of my daughter,”

The celebrity wife further submits in an affidavit that Mr Musyani’s posts extended to disparaging her mother, daughter and threatening her husband.

She submits that her advocates have advised her that all the posts stated above, having been made in the cyber space with intent to intimidate and threaten, amounts to harassment utilising electronic means, cyber bullying and hate speech.

The case was recently filed this week and the matter was allocated before magistrate Mbuywana Sinvula who is expected to preside over it.

By press time, the highly expressive Mr Musyani, who was recently in a verbal phone confrontation with the ‘Olios'(Mulengas) was reportedly apprehended after the court issued a summons against him.

(Mwebantu, Saturday, April 20th, 2024)