By BigEyeUg Team; The Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has tasked Ugandan government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to return back prominent singer Eddy Kenzo.
During the Parliamentary session held on Wednesday, Hon. Kadaga raised her concern towards Eddy Kenzo’s current dire condition in Cote D’Ivoire, to the house after receiving a call from him earlier this week.
In response, Hon. Kadaga has asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sam Kahamba Kuteesa to offer Kenzo consular services through the ministry’s mission in Abuja.
She also requested the Ministry to foot his bills in Ivory Coast before he can be returned.
“I received a call from Eddy Saidi Kenzo who is stack in Cote D’Ivoire where he had gone to perform, he is really in a dire state now because the Lockdown found him out of the country, he has spent whatever he had, he is now unable to come back home because the flights are not available,” said Speaker Kadaga.
“I would want to call upon the Minister of Foreign Affairs, working through our mission in Abuja to offer him consular services, so that he can be assisted maybe to come nearer to where we have a mission or to assisted to comeback home but to also meet his bills,” Kadaga said.
The Speaker further promised to front the ‘Tweyagale’ singer’s issue to the H.E YK Museveni who ample support within the shortest time frame.
“I will also be informing his excellency the President about this matter so that he can be assisted.”
Kadaga is added by revealing the singer’s current miserable life extrapolated by language barrier, Ivory Coast being a French speaking country.
“For him is so worse even he is in a French speaking country, life there is not easy as compared to when you’re in an English-speaking country,” she added.
Eddy Kenzo is still stranded in Ivory Coast where he had travelled for a couple of music performances in March before the COVID-19 lockdown on the continent.
We will keep you posted as the plans to jet the multi-award-winning singer back home unfold.
