Celebrated Zambian singer Leo Moyo who is also known as K’millian has said it was unfortunate that he ended up behind bars on November 18, 2009, when he had an argument with his business partners.
And K’millian has said his new 10-track album will be ready for the market this month.
Speaking in an exclusive interview, the “Kakabalika” hit maker told Lusaka Times that the issue that landed him at Lusaka Central Police cells was all but a mere misunderstanding.
Police arrested K’millian for theft by agent involving K38 million which he allegedly got from a named businessman.
Bonnie Kapeso who was police spokesperson at the time told Lusaka Times that K’millian had been arrested for allegedly obtaining K38 million from a named businessman who reported him to police.
“He was arrested for theft by agent, he was selling goods for someone and it is alleged that in the process he obtained money amounting to K38 million,” Kapeso said.
K’millian who had been in police custody for two days said he was selling goods for his Malawian business partner who reported him to police after he took his commission out of the sales.
“I have been selling stuff for a friend from Malawi, we have been doing business together for some time but he had not been giving me my commission.”
“I sold the first consignment and he did not give me my commission, the second consignment was the same and the third time I just said well let me get a little for myself also and I told him that I needed the money and he agreed but it’s like when his friend head, he said no and reported the case to police,” he said.
Narrating the ordeal yesterday in Lusaka, K’millian disclosed that the person involved was actually his Aunt.
“It was actually my Aunt, and we even talked about it, she didn’t want to take the matter to police, but the thing is that she was also working with other people.”
“These are the people who insisted and forced her to report the matter to the police and so I just had to be cooperative and go to the police,” he explained.
Asked if she had buried the hatchet with the said businessmen in Malawi, K’millian said it was all in the past.
“Everything was resolved, that’s why I am saying it was just a miss understanding because it shouldn’t even have gone to the police in the first place,” he said.
Asked if his arrest had taken a toll on his esteem musically, the singer whose albums are normally back-to-back hits said it would have been difficult for him to release his 2010 project if that had happened.
“Thankfully people understood the situation which I also learned from and I have been working since then to release this forth coming album,” K’millian said.
He said his sixth album would be on the market this month and hopped that his fans would find it better than the rest.
K’millian who partly lived his childhood life in South Africa is the singer behind hit songs like “Uleibukisha”, “Kakabalika”, “Nizakukonda” and “Pa Ulendo”.
The song Kakabalika from the album “Another Day” spent over 21 weeks as number one on Zambian music local charts and won K5 million as song of the year in 2007 under the local rhythms count down on Radio Phoenix. DM
