SOLDIER BLOCKS POLICE

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:29:50 +0000

…from arresting suspect who poked out pupil’s eye

By Bennie Mundando

A ZAMBIA Army non commissioned officer is reportedly hiding his son at the new military barracks in Lusaka West to shield him from being arrested for grievous bodily assault.

The serviceman has so far ignored two police call-outs and skipped two court sessions after his son allegedly poked out the eye of a pupil at Jesus Army Private School in Hellen Kaunda.

According to impeccable sources on May 10, 2017, Kazembe Miselo, a Grade 11 pupil at Arakan Secondary School smashed Abby Ngoma’s eye with a bottle after the victim refused to give him money to go and attend a party, leaving his friend hospitalised at UTH for almost a week before his eye was removed and replaced by an artificial one.

Sensing the impending arrest of his son, Boyd Miselo, a warrant officer class one in the Zambia Army rushed to Mtendere where his son was staying with his mother after he divorced her and took him to Lusaka West where he has been hiding him in the barrack since May.

When Mtendere police officers went to the barrack to arrest him, they were allegedly rebuffed and told in no uncertain terms that the premises were out of bounds to any police officer.

Attempts to ambush the boy from school again failed as school authorities hid him saying he had stopped going to school after the incidence. The police sent two call-outs to Mr. Miselo to compel him avail his son but he ignored them.

Abby’s aunt Benedette Malupande told the Daily Nation that the situation became complicated when the victim’s mother died mysteriously after an accident as she was pursuing the matter while Mr. Miselo refused to offer any help to the family whom he allegedly told to go wherever they wanted.

Ms. Malupande said the family took the matter to court but still Mr. Miselo has skipped two sessions with only the mother turning up on Thursday this week where she lied to the court that her husband and son were on their way from Lusaka West, forcing the court to wait from 08:00 to 12:00 before adjourning the matter to September 14, 2017.

And when contacted for a comment, Mr. Miselo said the story was not true and promised to get back to the reporter as he was driving, but he did not.

His wife also denied that her son had assaulted anyone, telling this reporter to get back to the same people who had “lied” to him.