Get a research team, you're embarrassing yourself - Kenzo blasts Bobi over Shs30bn claim

Wine, who has avidly spoken against musicians getting handouts from the government, recently claimed that musicians had been allocated Shs30 billion, yet it is quite less than that.

The Ministry of Finance committed Shs13 billion that will go towards supporting artists under the Microfinance Support Centre.

The funds will be used for capitalization of the performing artists’ SACCO to enable them to provide financial services to stakeholders in the Creative Industry as well as support the development of structures for the Creative Industry and Artists.

Speaking to the media on Tuesday, December 13, Eddy Kenzo said: "Bobi needs to hire a research team that won't feed him wrong information... His party has representation in parliament and I would expect him to have accurate information... It's absurd that at his level he can still be misled."

According to Kenzo, they were not given 30 billion and they are also yet to receive it.

"Unless he knows something we don't," he said.

Bobi Wine has classified musicians eyeing government money as beggars. This has not sat well with most of them. Bebe Cool said he is foolishly ranting and that his claims are politically motivated.

"Bobi Wine knows that if us musicians are better financially, he loses clout. He embarks on uninformed talks to intimidate his fellow artists to fall under his trap," he said.

"He has always wanted to portray himself as an endorser or godfather of concerts, with a false belief that If he doesn't endorse a music concert, it flops. That's what he wrongly thinks. He presumes everyone should believe in what he believes in. Naaaah. We just want better laws for all of us."

Meanwhile, Eddy Kenzo has said that his issues with Bobi Wine go back to when he was still under Firebase.