By KT Reporter
As Gen Salim Saleh quarrels publicly about musician Omulangira Ssuuna bagging his Shs11m and failing to produce good enough anthem for OWC, Saturday media reports have indicated that musicians from Northern Uganda (who have been complaining about singers from Buganda trekking to Saleh’s home in Gulu City’s Te-Dam Cell in Layibi Division to cut deals as they, sons and daughters of the soil, yawn on empty stomachs) are expecting Shs11bn from government to resuscitate their ailing music careers.
Specifically a report in Saturday Monitor indicates that musicians from Acholi have been protesting because they are unhappy that a lot of cash has been dished out to Raga Dee’s group by their guest Saleh from their City without them ever getting their slice of the cake. In revenge, they have been threatening to compose songs de-campaigning NRM candidates for 2026 which has scared the government into considering to give them their own grant of Shs11bn.
Yet that isn’t all. The Saturday Monitor report indicates that even as Gen Saleh quarreled about musicians on 22nd December as he launched sprawling Gulu City’s shopping center that will be used to avail products manufactured from the Namunkekera Industrial Complex in Kapeeka Nakaseke which he has been promoting, musicians haven’t been sufficiently cowed to the extent of totally giving up. They remain hopeful that being a magnanimous and very kind man, Gen Saleh, who is their Father Christmas, won’t permanently lock them out.
Towards the end, the Saturday Monitor story also makes reference to a confidential document according to which another more than Shs9.5bn is to be separately shared by big-name musicians from Buganda. These, according to the Saturday Monitor report, include Jose Chameleon (800m), David Lutalo (420m), Pallaso (821m), King Saha who Bobi Wine has lately been taking to be his right hand man (357m) and Bebe Cool (670m).
