King Saha Expresses Interest to Replace Cindy as UMA President

Musician King Saha has expressed interest to become the next president of the Uganda Musicians Association (UMA). Saha picked nomination forms on Monday from the UMA offices at National Theatre and said he was very excited about what was to come.

“I am already excited. This is going to be good. For the first time, the music industry is all going to be united for one major cause,” he said.

The position is currently occupied by Cindy Sanyu who is yet to reveal whether she will return or not.

King Saha’s bid is backed by former president Ykee Benda. He wrote a lengthy post on Monday explaining why Saha is the best for the role.

“As you all know, I’m a former president of this association that I dearly love and belong to, but the reason I had to leave office was because most of the people I was working with were not transparent and their intentions were far away from the core goals of the association, some had personal interests of getting money from the government for their own good, not the industry something that I failed to agree with because in the end, it would come back to me as a president and also it wasn’t adding to me an active musician.”

“Most of the colleagues were our elders in music who are no longer active in music and had nothing to lose that’s why “some” of them only cared more about getting government money individually with no intentions to make lives better for the industry people something that disorganized every plan we had as an association and I couldn’t really wait to get into embarrassments that I didn’t work for. So I left.”

“This association was formed to bring the industry together to make sure we equally benefit & protect our art from all corners and for this to work, we need a strong leadership that is trusted.

The reason I’m voting for King Saha is because I trust him, I’ve dealt with him for the past 5 years. He is a man of his word, and I trust him to be my president because he knows how bad we need this to work, he is an active musician that has something to lose if he messes up with anything.”