Africa's music legend Koffi Olominde was on Monday, December 13, sentenced to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of kidnapping his former dancers.
The Papa Ngwasuma hitmaker was accused of sexually assaulting and kidnapping four of his former dancers between 2002 and 2006 in a villa in Paris, France.
Though he was found guilty of kidnapping, the Congolese musician was acquitted of sexual assault charges on the same dancers he kidnapped.
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He was acquitted after the court gave the charge the benefit of the doubt due to the "evolving and sometimes contradictory statement" issued by the complainants.
Koffi will not, however, go to prison, at least not for now. This is after the Versailles Court in France suspended the sentence for three years.
His judicial record included a conviction in 2019 in France for the defilement of an under 15-year minor and sequestration of the four dancers.
After he was found guilty of the charges, the court gave him a two-year suspended sentence instead of a seven-year prison sentence as requested by the prosecution team.
Koffi had appealed the sentence noting that the dream of his accusers was to live in France and they were well protected hence he could not do them any harm.
The sentencing come barely a month after Koffi sought solace at a church in Congo where he confessed to the church leaders that he was "overwhelmed by problems".
In 2016, he was deported from Kenya after he allegedly assaulted one of his dancers at the airport. Two years later, an arrest warrant was issued against him in Zambia for assaulting a photographer.
