FLASHY businessman Frank Buyanga eventually returned his ill child to his ex-female friend as the net closed in on him, and jail beckoned Saturday afternoon. Buyanga had become a fugitive from justice after breaking his custody and gained entry to the arrangement, and his former girlfriend Chantelle Muteswa, with whom he has a son. The businessman had turned the tables against Muteswa’s trauma. She was arrested for contempt after allegedly failing to turn over the toddler’s passport in compliance with a court order.
Through her legal representative, Munyaradzi Bwanya of Wilmot and Bennett, Muteswa appealed in opposition to a Magistrate Court to release her son’s passport. However, the contempt rate nonetheless stands.
In the period in between, Muteswa additionally lodged a contempt charge against Buyanga, for which the businessman now dangers time inside the slammer.
With Buyanga having vanished into skinny air, a distraught Muteswa on Friday informed newzimbabwe.com she has become desperate to have her son back, indicating he has become unwell. “I am distraught. I have explored all prison options to be had to me and am not using my satisfaction. My state of affairs is compounded by way of the reality that the police at Borrowdale Police Station have mainly been opposed to the court order forcing Buyanga to return my toddler, with one of them telling me it is not pressing. Ironically, some of them are speaking to Buyanga day by day,” said Muteswa.
At the time, authorities had claimed they couldn’t discover Buyanga or the 4-year-old infant.
However, Bwana and his legal companion, Lucky Jonas, made an ex parte application seeking to have Buyanga pressured to return the child. Bwana stated that through a few strokes of fortune, the police finally served Buyanga with the court order.
“What ought to in no way be misplaced in all is that the mother of the 4-year-antique is disadvantaged of the lawful custody, without a doubt, because this man or woman (Buyanga) can break out with it. It creates an impression within the minds of different wealthy and influential people that they are, by some means, above the law,” stated Bwana.
Bwana said he might now move to apply for a warrant of arrest no matter Buyanga having returned the child 24 hours after the order. “We will technique the courts to have our rights enforced,” Muteswa’s lawyer stated.
