Congolese music legend, Koffi Olomide, has been
arrested by police in Kenya for assaulting a female dancer at the Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport.
This was following a live television interview on
Citizen TV where the footage of the alleged assault took center stage.
Kenya’s Inspector General of Police, Joseph Boinnet,
reportedly gave the order that Olomide be arrested, according to The Cable
News.
The singer risks facing a year jail sentence if
convicted under the penal code of the country, which states that “any person
who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a misdemeanor and is liable to
imprisonment for one year”, report says.
This is not the first time the Congolese star has
been linked with such a behaviour.
In 2008, he was "accused of kicking and
breaking the camera of a cameraman from DR Congo’s private RTGA television
station", The Cable reports.
He has already been convicted of assaulting his
producer, Diego Lubaki, in an altercation that occurred in 2012. An incident
that led to three months prison sentence.
When he is not kicking a woman at the airport or
assaulting his long term music producer, Olomide is a music genius.
He is the founder of the Quartier Latin
International orchestra with many notable artists including Fally Ipupa and
Ferré Gola.
The singer once
received four awards on a single night at the annual Kora Awards in South
Africa for 2002 and 2003.
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