26 YEAR OLD GHETTO BOY, BAHATI WHO PUBLICLY QUIT PRAISING GOD SUMMONED BY COURT

The accused Peter Mwanyalo aka Blessings at Milimani lower criminal Court Nairobi County Kenya. PHOTO /CHRIS OJOW

State Prosecution second witness inline Lawrence Munyao aka Wisdom “weezdom” at Milimani lower criminal Court after he was stood down on grounds of breach of witness protocol. PHOTO /CHRIS OJOW

The accused very talented and promising Gospel Musician Peter Mwanyalo (right) right shares ideas with his Lawyer Festus Mbati after the criminal case was adjourned to Tuesday 25th November 2020 due to the absence of the key witness and the complainant singer Kevin Mbuvi Kioko who quit singing Gospel music and ventured into secular rhythms known as “genge tone”. PHOTO /CHRIS OJOW

Singer Bahati who quit Gospel for the “genge tunes” stand accused of intimidating his former band team. PHOTO /CORRESPONDENT

26 YEAR OLD GHETTO BOY, BAHATI WHO PUBLICLY QUIT PRAISING GOD SUMMONED BY COURT

By Chris Ojow

As his star dogged by several controversies

since quitting praising the Almighty Great God

through his songs in the Gospel industry and

joined the much bashed and loved in equal

measure, secular music industry “genge tone” .

Kenyan Youthful Musician Kevin Mbuvi Kioko

aka Bahati was on Wednesday 11th November

2020 at 12.30 noon summoned by the trial

Court and ordered to appear before Nairobi’s

Senior Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochoi on

Tuesday 25th November 2020 at 9am East

Africa Time.

The Ghetto boy who was born and bread within

the Sprawling Slums of Mathare, Kosovo

Nairobi County Kenya, was scheduled to testify

as the key witness and a complainant in a

criminal case number 130 of year 2020 at the

lower criminal Court Milimani Nairobi County

Kenya before the trial Senior Principal

Magistrate Bernard Ochoi , where one of his

former band member a very Talented promising

20 year old Gospel Musician Peter Mwanyalo

was charged with one count of obtaining money

over two million Kenya shillings by false

Pretence, contrary to section 313 of the penal

code.

The accused former member of Bahati Band

Peter Mwanyalo through a team of his officers

of the Court led by Festus Mbati, Francis

Karanja and Kevin Lumasai raised an objection

before the trial Court, when the second witness

in line, Lawrence Munyao aka Wisdom

“weezdom” was called by the State lead

Prosecutor Senior James Gachoka and took

oath to proceed with his testimony.

The accused Peter Mwanyalo through his team

of defence reminded the Court that the State

Prosecutor breached the Court procedure of

calling witnesses by ignoring the key witness

and allowing other witnesses to testify, where

the accused Peter informed the parked Court

that according to the criminal procedure, it is

the key witness the complainant who must

testify first before other witnesses are called to

the witness Dock, that is after the second

witness Lawrence Munyao was stood down by

Court and summoned issued to former Gospel

musician Kevin Mbuvi Kioko aka Bahati to

appear on Tuesday 25th November before the

trial Court without fail.

Initially the accused Peter Mwanyalo knowing

very well that he was scheduled to appear for

his hearing, arrived very early together with his

team of lawyers Festus Mbati, Francis Karanja

and Kevin Lumasai at Milimani Law Court at

9am East Africa Time on Wednesday 11th 2020

, ready for the proceedings only for the file

number 130/2020 being placed aside after

Singer Kevin Mbuvi Kioko aka Bahati failed to

show up before the Court and no explanation

given to the Trial Court for his absenteeism,

with the State Prosecutor James Gachoka

giving hopes that he has contacted the Singer

and he hopes he will attend his case where he,

Bahati himself is the Complainant.

It is alleged that on 04th July 2019 and 05th

January the year 2020 the accused Peter

Mwanyalo being present at the Ruiru based

Nairobi County Kenya, Eastlands Most Beloved

Studio (EMB) owned by a youthful father of two

singer Kevin Mbuvi Kioko Bahati with intend to

defraud, the accused unlawfully and

intentionally obtained 2,039,000 Kenya shillings

by falsy pretending that he was in a position to

produce music videos with the said Bahati

recording studio EMB, a fact the accused

new was false, with the State Prosecutor James

Gachoka lining up two witnesses Bahati and

Wisdom “weezdom” to testify against the

accused during the trial.

The accused 20 year Peter a promising Gospel

musician who was arrested on 16th January

year 2020 without a warrant of arrest after

being reported by Singer Bahati at the Central

Police Station Nairobi County on allegations of

fraud, was freed on a police bond of 10,000

Kenya shillings and ordered to appear before

the duty Court for plea taking on 23rd January

2020.

The genesis of the ongoing criminal case at

Nairobi Milimani Law Court which is supposed

according to the existing laws of the Country

be filed as a Civil matter at the Commercial

Court because of a dispute in breach of

contract, stated in the year 2018.

Where the accused Peter was called and given

the appointed by Singer Bahati, the two met at

a Hotel within Nairobi along Kimathi Street

Nairobi County, where singer Bahati

accompanied by his Lawyer met the youthful

talented singer and penned down a contract

with the singer for a period of twenty years,

forgetting that the youthful singer who was 18

years by then was not properly represented

according to the law.

Peter signed the Contract with Bahati at a

Nairobi Hotel without proper representation not

knowing that the deadly action he took in

absence of a lawyer would cost his life and by

that time Peter was not financially stable to hire

a lawyer to represent him in Contract signings

since he was very ambitious, talented and fresh

from high school, armed with a deadly great

singing voice and through that opportunity the

accused stressed that Singer Bahati took

advantage of his non exposure situation.

The ongoing case within the lower criminal

Court at Nairobi Milimani Law Court resulted

after the accused Peter decided to breach the

contract signed with Bahati and decided to

follow his dreams by going solo, on the

allegations of fraud which is before Court, the

Singer narrated to the African Times Media

Investigation award winning Photojournalist

Chris Ojow that the allegations levelled against

him are false and Kenyans should be patient

and wait for ongoing trial to know the truth,

Peter confided to African Times Media that his

innocent and the allegations are carefully

schemed by Bahati to destroy his reputation,

since in all the invoices presented before the

court, there is nowhere indicated that he

received any money fraudulently from singer

Bahati recording studio.

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