Catherine Kusasira auctions her prized V8 car

Singer Catherine Kusasira is reportedly auctioning her prized V8 car, which was a gift to her by President Museveni ahead of 2021-elections. The price of the car has never been  disclosed, but the Drones can authoritatively reveal that it costs about sh400m.

Sources said Kusasira got the vehicle in her capacity as a Presidential advisor. Now, her V8 vehicle was said to have been parked at Pine Car Sales Center in Nakasero, Kampala for over a week now.

She is reportedly indebted;  she is laden with  accumulated debts, and with no corridor to meet powerful handlers in corridors of power, she has sold off some of  her properties in order to survive jail.

Although Kusasira has been getting and showing off a lot of money from the state, now – she says she accumulated the debts when the country was locked up. She has been seeking the head of state to give her facilitation.

Kusasira is one of the NRM supporters who have showed off money to the anger of the population. Kusasira is not the first person to sell President Museveni’s gift to her. Singer Ronald Mayinja did the same just a month after he received the vehicle. He said he didn’t have money to maintain the vehicle.

This is not the first time, Kusasira is running broke. Some time back, the Presidential advisor on Kampala affairs was apparently in the spotlight over a hair debt.

This was because the celebrated Kibuli-based barber, Brian Lutaaya a.k.a Brian Barber threatened to sue  the presidential advisor, Catherine Kusasira for ‘failing’ to clear a hair debt amounting to shillings 300,000.

The barber claimed the debt occurred in 2019 when Kusasira held her ‘Tears of a Woman’ concert that was graced by President Museveni at Serena Hotel.

He made the accusations while appearing on an entertainment show on a local TV entertainment show. Brian Barber said the Golden Band artist hired him as her official barber for the concert and agreed a payment of Shs200, 000.

Lutaaya further alleges that while offering the hair service, she asked him if he had Shs 100,000 with him so she could give it to her kids to buy something to eat which he says did, making it a total of Shs 300, 000.

“She told me, a one Amina would give me the money. During the process, some people came and told her that the President had arrived and that she was supposed to go immediately and sing for him and there was no way of asking her for my money,” Lutaaya said in an interview.

While she was leaving, Lutaaya says he tried to remind her to pay him for the service but she ignored him. “She told me to come to the concert saying Amina would pay me. She was whisked away in her gown attire and that is the last time I saw her”

Lutaaya, who says got to know Kusasira through a manicurist, has threatened to dump his children at the singer’s home to feed them or report her to police should she fail to pay him.

“I have all the evidence. I have all voice notes of the manicurist reminding her to pay my money. She will also compensate for the expenses I have incurred over the two years”

Bryan Barber’s confessions of an artist’s failure to pay hair bills. Last year, Moses Ssali alias Bebe Cool found himself in the same situation after famous barber, Mart Barber accused him of failing to pay for his hair services rendered to his family.

In another development Kusasira was involved in a scandal that almost swept her into exile. Afande Edith Nakalema’s led State House Anti-Corruption Unit together with police investigated the Presidential Advisor on Kampala affairs, singer Catherine Kusasira and City Pastor Franklin Mondo Mugisha on allegations of fleecing Ugandans over Ugx 4billion.

According to Afande Nakalema, the duo is connected to offences by Revival Church in Bombo led Pastor, Siraje Semanda of who was charged two days ago at Buganda road court and remanded to Kitalya prison.

In the court hearing, the prosecution side stated that in February 2018 at various Pentecostal Churches and schools in Tororo district Ssemanda obtained Ugx82M from Geoffrey Owor.

He also reportedly obtained millions of money between May and November 2018 in Bombo from several school directors and church followers who he had promised bursaries for their children.

Kusasira and Mondo appeared before the unit for questioning on Tuesday, after summons on accusations from a group of complainants.

In her defence, Kusasira shared that she has met Pastor Siraje twice and it was on a function where he had invited her as a guest of honor but knows nothing about having ties with him to defraud Ugandans. She pledged to offer her support to Nakalema to have this matter solved.

“I do not have any deal with him. I think my only fault was honoring his invitation to attend his church function, but people have always called us for their functions,” she said.

Mondo on the other hand who also denied all the allegations saying he had only gone to Siraje’s church to talk to the youth has since been detained at Wandegeya Police station.

In a meeting over the weekend, a group of pastors under their umbrella body- Hands Across the World, told the State House Anti-Corruption Unit Head Lt Col Edith Nakalema that Kusasira, Mondo and Siraj solicited from them over Ugx 4billion in promise of foreign trips to Israel as well as taking them to President Yoweri Museveni.

The pastors alleged that these accomplices have been using the President’s name and First Lady Janet Kataha Museveni to allegedly commit the fraud.

“They collected money from us promising to take us to Israel, pay school fees for our children as well as involving us in income-generating schemes under Operation Wealth Creation. Each one of us paid more than Ugx100, 000 but since then we have never received anything,” One of the pastors told Col Nakalema.

He added that: “One time we had a meeting and Catherine Kusasira told us that she was representing the President. She assured us that whatever we were promised was to be fulfilled.”

On her part, Col Nakalema assured the aggrieved pastors that their issue would be investigated and worked upon accordingly.

“On behalf of the State House we are very sorry for what happened to you. We are going to work with the responsible authorities to ensure that justice is prevailed,” Nakalema asserted.