Nyege Nyege Festival 2023!! Weird Thing Happens On The First Day – Ugandans Left In Shock

On the first day of this year’s Nyege Nyege music festival in Jinja City, not many people showed up to celebrate. Four nights of crazy party scenes and performances by a variety of musical acts are anticipated during the event.

Even though a number of service providers set up their kiosks and tents to serve food and drinks to revelers, the turnout was still minimal compared to last year’s Nyege Nyege festival at Itanda Falls, which was a hive of activity at the Source of the Nile.

According to Darius Nandinda, the Jinja Resident City Commissioner (RCC), security had been beefed up at the Nyege Nyege festival venue to avert all sorts of crimes. Nandinda said that the Nyege Nyege festival is a bigger opportunity to market Jinja as an adventure city to the rest of the world, adding that the number of tourists in Jinja will increase and revenues too will increase.

By Thursday afternoon, the bridge way to the Source of the Nile, the site of the Nyege Nyege music festival 2023, remained deserted. Don Kiirya took this picture.Over 300 musicians are scheduled to perform at the festival at various locations, such as the Source of the Nile, the Jinja Agricultural Show, the Jinja Golf Course, and Nile Park, according to Derick Debru, one of the festival’s cofounders.According to him, more than 20,000 foreign visitors had purchased Nyege Nyege tickets and were already in the nation to take part in the festival’s electronic dance and music event. He claimed that in order to organize the festival in Uganda, $400,000 had been invested.

During a presser at Source Garden Hotel in Jinja on Monday, Busoga Kingdom’s tourism minister, Hellen Namutamba, in company with Derek Debru, banned suits, tunics (Kanzu), and gomesis at the Nyege Nyege festival.Chief Executive of Talent Africa and one of the organizers, Ali Alibhai, stated that the police, UPDF, CMI, and other security agencies are collaborating with them to manage security for the event.In light of recent terror alerts, the embassies of the United States of America and the United Kingdom in Kampala have advised their nationals not to go to the nation’s national parks or to public events like the Nyege Nyege festival.

This caused AIGP Godfrey Tumusiime Katsigazi, the deputy IGP of the Uganda Police Force, to travel to Jinja and visit the Nyege Nyege festival site as well as the Kyabazinga Royal Wedding pre-party (Kasiki) at Kyabazinga Stadium in Bugembe.Katsigazi assured Ugandans that, as police and other security agencies, they are ready to protect citizens and avert any terror threats, as they have done before in the country.

Performances are expected from artists who include A Pass, Acidic Vocokz, Afrorack, Akiiki Malepuko, Alibrezzy, Alisha, Alza, Dj. Aron, Arsenal Mikebe, Assyouti, Aunty Rayzor, Aweko, Baisi and Troupe, Banyaruguru Troupe, Bebson De La Rue, Biiha, Boutross, Cilikon Avokoz, Cool Demus, Dj. Sharp Max, Ecko Bazz, Eddy Ekete, Eddy Kenzo, John Blaq, Karole Kasita, Karibu Band, Kadabada, Junior Kamili, and Ubuntu Band, among others.