The latest drama reaching our news desk in the entertainment industry involves a UPDF Lieutenant a one Swalich Nkyakana who claims to be the father to Team No Sleep songstress Sheebah Karungi.
Nyakana requests to meet Sheebah so as to share some insights about life and as well perform a DNA test to confirm whether Sheebah is his daughter reasoning that he has been searching for her for a while now.
According to New Vision, Nyakana assures that he is not after Sheebah’s fame and wealth, but he simply wants her to know her roots.
In 1980, he says he was recruited into the army where he spent five years on battlefronts until he defected from Lutwa’s government and joined the National Resistance Army.
“At home, she was named Karungi. I have no idea who named her Sheebah,” Nyakana wonders.
From the village, the mother and baby joined Nyakana in Bombo but the family joy was short-lived because, after a few weeks, Nyakana was deployed to fight against Lakwena rebel group in northern Uganda.
“I am sure maama Karungi decided to move on because of the hard situations that surrounded us. I was always away. She could hardly bear it anymore,” he said as quoted by the New Vision.
From the war, Nyakana was transferred to Kasijjagirwa barracks in Masaka in 1990. He recalls how he tried to trace for maama Karungi in vain. Years later, he feels haunted to reunite with his child.
He now wants to meet Sheebah and talk to her and if at all she is not his daughter, he will search on.
It’s important to note that in 2018, a man who was purported to be Sheebah’s dad died. Before his death Ahamada Kimali Musoke (RIP) disowned the singer and stated in his will that he did not wish the singer to bury him.
However, Sheebah’s mother clearly narrates that she was married to a man called Lutwama (refused to reveal second name) and had six children together in Kayanja Buikwe district. She adds that one day, her husband’s brother Ahmad Kimali Musoke picked interest in her and their secret affair resulted in a child now called Sheebah.
She says that she kept this secret from her husband until she couldn’t hold it anymore. She later opened up to him one day and let the truth out.
Sheebah went to Kawempe Muslim Primary School, but after S.2 at Midland High School, while living with her mother in Kawempe, she chose to pursue a music dream that was full of frustrations for close to 10 years until she landed her 2016 ‘Ice Cream’ hit song that opened her way to the mainstream.
