Mika Convention Centre manager testifies in Gutila Muleya’s murder trial

19th June 2025

Courts

IBA Accountant Francis Chipyoka leaving the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court shortly after explanation of the murder charge of Guntila Muleya on Monday 23rd September 2024-Picture by Chongo Sampa

Courts

IBA Accountant Francis Chipyoka leaving the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court shortly after explanation of the murder charge of Guntila Muleya on Monday 23rd September 2024-Picture by Chongo Sampa

A MANAGER at Mika Convention Centre has narrated to the Lusaka High Court how he saw the late Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Director General, Gutila Muleya, being forced into a vehicle in handcuffs at the hotel. Testifying before Justice Vincent Siloka on Tuesday, 44-year-old Richard Kapili told the court that Muleya pleaded with him not to let the men he was with take him away, saying he did not trust them. In this case, four individuals, Francis Chipyoka, 42; M’Thusani Baza Dokowe, 29 (a police officer); Alex Caleb Zulu, 30 (also a police officer); and Samuel Baza Dokowe, 37 (an engineer), are jointly charged with murder, contrary to Section 200 of the Penal Code, Chapter 87 of the Laws of...

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Precious Daka

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