Early this year Kenyan musicians joined to push media houses pressing them to play local music in a tag ‘Play Kenya Music. The media houses, Celebrities, deejays and a slot of the musicians came out defending the media stations asking for quality and content music which many feel is lacking in the maret.
On the same note, Kenyan controversial singer Esther Akoth, popularly known as Akothee, has faced her latest hitch in her career after an international music tour was cancelled.
According to reports, South Sudan pulled the plug on the singer’s scheduled performance based on her moral standing.
According to reports by the young nation’s media outlets, Akothee approached the South Sudan Embassy asking to hold her tour in the country but after deliberations, they decided that she was not fit.
Her request was allegedly well received by the embassy at first but after it was forwarded to the relevant ministry in the country, Dr. Nadia and Makuei Lueth concluded she was immoral.
‘She is a bad influence and lacks self-respect. I watched her performances on YouTube and with the way she immorally behaves on stage, I conclude she is not the right musician to entertain our youth,” the outlet quoted Dr Nadia.
According to Lueth, the musician would still be welcome in the conflicted country but only as a tourist and not a performer based on her history of arrogance and online wars.
The outspoken singer has been on the receiving end from angry Kenyans in the past several days after raunchy photos of her emerged on the internet.
‘I don’t want my kids and relatives to watch a woman spreading her legs while in pants almost exposing her genitals in the name of entertainment. That would be an erotic behaviour for them to copy’, revealed Lueth.
During the Abebo Music Festival, the musician showed up in a white body fitting costume and her stage theatrics left tongues wagging.
What, however, shocked the most was the fact that her parents were present during the controversial performance.
Her latest performance went overboard to break the roof renting the airwaves on social media networks with unwarranted criticism which she has harshly defended herself from.