The Congolese rumba master, Koffi Olomide has seen his share of controversy in this lifetime but things have to a climax as he is likely to be sentenced to jail for seven years over a sexual assault allegation in France.
News reports have it that the 62 year old musician is standing trial for allegedly sexually assaulting four former dancers who claim that they were held against their will at a villa outside of Paris.
These crimes were said to be committed in Paris between 2002 and 2006.
“The dancers say they were detained by three men at the villa in Asnieres-sur-Seine, northwest of Paris, while Olomide was touring or recording, and had their passports and phones taken. They say that they were forced to have sex with Olomide, who struck them if they tried to resist, in the villa, in the bathroom of a supermarket, and also while in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, according to Yahoo News report.
Recall that Olomide was declared persona non-grata in 2016 and deported after he kicked one of his female dancers at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Kenya.
He was also slammed with charges by authorities in DR Congo in the same year for kicking one of his dancers.
In 2012, Koffi Olomide was the subject of a judicial process in Zambia where he was previously barred from entering after physically assaulting a Rwandan photojournalist in Lusaka.