Bobi Wine, Eddy Kenzo Clash Over Shs. 18 Billion From Government
Bobi Wine needs to get a research team that won’t give him wrong information, Eddy Kenzo remarked
Singer turned politician, Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine and fellow artist Eddy Kenzo have gone bare knuckles on each other over an alleged stimulus of Ugx 18 billion from government yet to be given to the Uganda National Musicians Federation (UNMF) which was unveiled to Ugandans mid this year.
Eddy Kenzo was elected as the president of the federation with three deputies including Karungi Sheebah, Pallaso and Juliana Kanyomozi who later quit citing personal responsibilities.
Ever since it was unveiled, the federation has been criticized by different people especially from opposition who allege that it was targeting money from the government.
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While addressing journalists at their party headquarters, NUP’s President Bobi Wine threw jabs at these musicians over the alleged stimulus worth billions of money that is rumored to be given to the federation artists.
“Musicians are set to receive Ugx 18bn from the supplementary budget, an amount equivalent to the construction of a hospital comparable to the level of Kiruddu Hospital. Fellow Musicians are going to eat an entire hospital,” Bobi Wine said.
Eddy Kenzo in a radio interview denied the allegations citing that their motive and purpose was to improve the music Industry. He further advised Bobi Wine to always do enough research before addressing such issues.
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“Bobi needs to get a research team that won’t give him wrong information. The supplementary budget has just been passed and he has his MPs in parliament who can tell them how much and what exactly was passed”
“Being a presidential candidate in his position, he’s supposed to be knowledgeable. I don’t know how he can be ignorant about important issues like that. No billions of mine have been given to artists yet, unless he knows something we don’t know,” He said.
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In a recent interview, Cindy Sanyu, the Uganda Musicians Association (UMA) president asked for inclusivity in the package and requested long term solutions for the industry instead of incentives which she said were short term solutions.
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