Tue, 29 Aug 2017 09:10:08 +0000
By Bennie Mundando
BOYD Miselo, the soldier who has been blocking the arrest of his son since May 10, 2017 after he assaulted a Grade 12 pupil from Jesus Army private school, yesterday again shielded him from being apprehended by lying to police that the boy was at his mother’s house in M’tendere when not.
And in a dramatic turn of events, Ms. Miselo yesterday turned herself to the police and demanded to be arrested because she has had enough pressure over the matter as her ex-husband was playing “mickey-mouse” over his son’s case even when he understood the gravity of what he had committed.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Miselo had asked for a meeting with family members of the victim who agreed under the condition that he would avail his son, Kazembe, but later changed his mind and asked that only a few should meet to discuss “preliminary” issues before the rest of the family members could meet today as he was scared of the victim’s “vicious” aunt.
The two victim’s family members who met Mr. Miselo at PHI Mall at exactly 15:45 were surprised to learn that he had come with three other colleagues in military uniforms and without the boy, saying his son was at his mother’s place in M’tendere.
When the quartet started negotiating to resolve the matter “amicably,” the victim’s family rubbished such attempts and demanded that the issue could only be resolved in the presence of the suspect and the rest of the victim’s family members despite his pleadings which lasted for 35 minutes.
In the meeting, Mr. Miselo admitted that he was keeping his son at the barrack in Lusaka West and that he was aware that his son had committed an offence and the matter was even in court but said it was not his duty to avail the boy to court.
“Yes I knew that there was a court case on Thursday but it was not my duty to take him to court. I told him to go to his mother and go to court. It was not my duty to avail him before the court,” Mr. Miselo insisted.
After realising that there was nothing tangible that would come out of the meeting, the family members returned to M’tendere police station where two police officers were dispatched to go and arrest Kazembe from his mother’s place but Ms. Miselo told the officers that her son was with the father.
“Kazembe came this morning as opposed to the lies his father is telling you that he came here on Saturday. His father called me earlier and said that we were meeting the family of the victim at PHI Mall and that Kazembe was needed as well.
He later called me and said I should not come but that only Kazembe was needed and the boy left for PHI Mall. “He is not here. Why would I hide him if he is around? I have had enough of this issue and if he comes back here today, I will personally hand him over to the police,” Ms. Miselo said.
When family members called him later at the police station and asked him why he had lied on the whereabouts of his son, Mr. Miselo could not give a clear-cut answer but insisted he should not be recorded before agreeing that the two families should meet today at 11:00 hours.
Meanwhile, there was drama at the police station as Ms. Miselo followed the officers who had gone to her house to arrest her son and demanded that she should be arrested instead because the family of the victim believed that she was conniving with her former husband to hide their son. The Zambia Army is yet to issue a statement on the matter.
