Digital content creators have raised concerns over remarks made by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in which he swayed the public to boycott songs by musicians who visited the sitting DP Kithure Kindiki.
The musicians, in a statement by their chairman Bob Ndolo on Sunday, termed the remarks as a threat to the private entertainment business. "These statements are not only regressive- they are a direct affront to the constitutional freedoms of expression, creativity, and enterprise," stated Ndolo. "Such pronouncements reek of dictatorship, intolerance, and a disturbing sense of entitlement to control thought and culture in Mt.Kenya and beyond". The artists were responding to remarks made by Gachagua on Sunday where he called on the artists to apologise to the community or risk boycott of their songs. "I stayed up late with the elders and we resolved that all those artists should apologise, if they fail to, then we stop listening to their music.
All the entertainment joints they get invited to, there should be no more invites," said Gachagua during a church service on Sunday.
Gachagua called the artists betrayers of the community for accepting DP Kindiki's invitation. "We are so saddened that they have become betrayers of the community.
