Samson Waswa

<ul><li>Pressure mounts on Ugandan artists and public figures to speak up on anti-corruption campaign</li><li>Calls to boycott musicians who remain silent on the issue gain traction on social media</li><li>Top musicians like Sheeba Karungi, Spice Diana, Cindy, and Winnie Nwagi face direct attack for their silence</li></ul>

Since the start of the week, calls to boycott musicians who have been silent on the campaign have gained traction on social media platforms like X.

Top Musicians including Sheeba Karungi, Spice Diana, Cindy, Winnie Nwagi among others have come under direct attack from social media users.

“The only Ugandan musicians who raised voices against corruption were (Bobi Wine) and Azawi,” posted writer Kakwenza Rukirabasaija on X.

“Others are folding hands in despair…They’ll come to announce their filthy concerts. Should I tell you what to do?”

A post calling for a boycott of concerts of musicians who have remained neutral on the corruption fight received over 1000 reposts.

“Can we all boycott the upcoming concerts if the owners are not speaking up against corruption. These people need to know that we are the people and power belongs to us,” posted one Bamwine Jr.

Another user, Kabaka Simo wrote, “They (musicians) keep fishing from the victims of corruption which they support. Report YouTube, TikTok and boycott concerts. I move a motion”

“Boycotting concerts whose owners remain silent on corruption sends a strong message that we, the people, won't support those who enable or benefit from corruption,” shared one Blaise Kashoggi

Other users pushed for the boycott to be extended to places of worship as well.

At the start of the week, Swangz Avenue singer Azawi faced backlash when she pulled down posts she had made about the “Stop Corruption March to Parliament” protest.

It was initially feared that she had been forced by her record lebel to delete the posts.

She however came out hours later to clarify that she pulled down the posts because they were being misused by some groups “for malicious purposes.”

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Musicians such as Spice Diana, Winnie Nwagi and Sheebah Karungi are being pressured to speak against corruption

Top musicians like Sheeba Karungi, Spice Diana, Cindy, and Winnie Nwagi face direct attack for their silence

Ugandan musicians face boycott over silence on corruption

Samson Toromade

<h2>Ever since he failed to make President Muhammadu Buhari's second term cabinet, after serving as the Minister of Youth and Sports between 2015 and 2019, Solomon Dalung has found a new lease of life as an outspoken government critic.</h2>

A couple of years after he lost his ministerial position, <a data-link-role-code="open_new_tab" href="https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/we-failed-nigerians-and-buhari-now-lives-in-regret-former-minister-dalung/xflmk04">he criticised the administration of his former boss</a> for not doing enough to curb insecurity sweeping the country. "Nigeria is bleeding to coma," he declared in a Facebook post on December 13, 2021.

His anti-government posture has since kicked up a notch with the administration of President Bola Tinubu which took over from the Buhari administration in May 2023. The former minister has <a data-link-role-code="open_new_tab" href="https://www.pulse.ng/news/ex-minister-dalung-recounts-ordeal-in-jos-hospital-over-naira80k/yskf1pd">turned his social media accounts into cannons</a> to fire missiles at the leadership of the former Lagos State governor.

In a July 9, 2024 post on X, formerly Twitter, Dalung said he discovered Tinubu would be "another tragedy" when he met him in 2022, prompting him to stop working for his campaign team.

"I am not an opponent of the Tinubu regime but an enemy of injustice, nepotism, corruption propaganda and impunity... his leadership credentials are tinted with absurdities, while his governance style thrives on state capture," <a data-link-role-code="open_new_tab" href="https://x.com/SolomonDalung/status/1810632293230276835">he posted</a>.

Solomon Dalung is pointing fingers a lot these days [Facebook/Solomon Dalung]

In another X post the previous day, the trained lawyer slammed the current administration for failing to tackle insecurity and declared, "Nigeria is under rogue regime."

The 59-year-old has also called the president insincere numerous times. In a June 17 X post, he accused the 72-year-old of mocking Nigerians by asking them <a data-link-role-code="open_new_tab" href="https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/tinubus-children-are-begging-nigerians-to-give-him-time-its-not-working/19hg3gb">to sacrifice for the country while his government remained wasteful</a>, and insensitive to the suffering of the masses.

Like many of <a data-link-role-code="open_new_tab" href="https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/oldest-nigerian-presidents-in-office-list/czv8z9n">Tinubu's critics</a>, Dalung has also called into question the electoral process that propelled him to Aso Rock. When the president took a worrying tumble at the Democracy Day ceremony in Abuja on June 12, the former minister published a post titled THE GODS ARE ANGRY.

He wrote, "Can only 8 million people elect a government for over 230 million people? It's beyond common logic that an incredible electoral process can be defined as democratic even when the flaws are stubbornly glaring."

"There's nothing indicating that Nigerians should expect anything from this clueless administration. At best, more people will die before 2027, while celebrations of propaganda, hypocrisy, impunity, and falsehood continue as distortion of leadership catastrophe," he added.

Solomon Dalung wants Nigerians to demand good governance [Facebook/Solomon Dalung Foundation]

Dalung's campaign is not without a goal: he wants Nigerians to revolt. He's posted about such a move numerous times, calling on Nigerians to protest against incompetent governance.

He's gone to dramatic lengths to press his demand, recently appearing in multiple videos in which he dressed in animal skin clothing, reacting to revolutionary songs in the background.

In a July 7 post, he appeared in a video, standing attentively while he played Twokay2Wo and Falo Da Vulcan's Youth Song (16 June 1976), a 2021 song referencing the bloody Soweto uprisings against South Africa's apartheid government.

Previously the same day, he posted a similar video, this time his left arm stretched in front of him in a signature protest pose while Idris Abdulkareem's Jaga Jaga song played in the background.

"An oppressor cannot take his knee off the neck of the poor without resistance. We all have the right to better lives. End bad governance now in Nigeria," he captioned the post.

He posted three other similar videos on July 7. In two of them, he played Hugh Masekela's popular revolutionary song, Sechaba, composed for the popular 1992 musical drama film Sarafina! For the other video, he played Khanyo Maphumulo's Freedom Is Coming, also from Sarafina!

"Arise oppressed people and end bad governance in Nigeria," <a data-link-role-code="open_new_tab" href="https://x.com/SolomonDalung/status/1809748143526887930">he captioned one of them</a>.

Solomon Dalung hasn't been a fan of the government since he left the scene unceremoniously in 2019

There's nothing new happening here. Many Nigerian politicians have in the past found their critical all-knowing voice after leaving office where they could have made more of an impact. But Dalung swears he's different.

The former lecturer is very quick to point out that, as a University of Jos student, he was arrested, brutalised and detained in the same prison as former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, in 1995.

"I am not a novice to the struggle, it has been my life," he boasted in the July 9 post.

Solomon Dalung has found a new lease of life as an outspoken government critic.

Buhari-era minister Solomon Dalung wants you to know he's a revolutionary now

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