By Andrew Irumba
The Uganda police have finally spoken out on why they arrested and deported South African celebrated singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who was meant to perform at Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi’s Enkuuka Y’omwaka concert, in Lubiri, Mengo tonight.
Chaka Chaka was picked from her Hotel room at Pearl of Africa in Kampala like a chicken thief, detained shortly by security agencies in conjunction with Immigration authorities and later deported back to South Africa like a smelly, valueless,unclaimed cargo.
Although police have since issued a statement indicating that Chaka Chaka was deported because she traveled to Uganda on a wrong Visa, political pundits have since claimed Chaka Chaka’s troubles stem from her close links with people power pressure group leader Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
It should be remembered that Chaka’s love for Bobi Wine has been a public secret since his raise unto the political scene. Infact, she was recently quoted in South Africa calling Bobi the new Nelson Mandela, this time for Uganda. This, we’re told, among others could have been her ‘undoing’ and she will live to regret it as long as she wants to come to 256.
Hired by another Museveni’s nemesis, Abby Musinguzi of Abitex promotions, Chaka was paid highly and slated to perform at the Kabaka’s Enkuuka annaul fete in Lubiri Mengo.
Speaking to this on-line news paper, Police spokesman Fred Enanga said Chaka Chaka entered Uganda on an ordinary visa yet she is in the country on an income generating activity. “An ordinary visa can’t allow her to perform in any income generating activity,” Enanga said.
According to police, Chaka Chaka should have flown in on a working visa.
Chaka Chaka, on advice of immigration, she was escorted to Entebbe International Airport Tuesday afternoon and deported by security tasked team and immigration.
