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After Kenyans raised their concerns about the absence of longtime rapper Colonel Mustafa after a big fundraiser in his honour, the artist has now emerged to speak about his silence.
Some people on the internet claimed that despite the artist being given money to help himself economically and even to develop his clothes and shoe shop on Chokaa street, near Kayole, the shop has still not moved.
Following the concern, the rapper has come forward to explain the situation while denying claims that the store was completely closed.
“The shop has really been closing, but it’s not as if we have closed the shop, there have been too many things. I was still dealing with my mother and we were waiting after the radiotherapy to do a pediscan.
That is the thing that has been making me less available at work at the store,” he said in an interview with the Mungai Eve channel.
“Apart from that, the music stuff and I have also been doing many shows and I haven’t found someone capable of putting him there, who I really believe is working until I return,” he added.
He also admitted that several Kenyans have still been sending him financial help months after he went viral after a video of him doing mjengo work that went viral and attracted sympathy from fans and benefactors.
Mustafa said that his mother’s journey to recover from cancer is progressing well and she is currently exercising to regain her physical strength.
As a nurse, she is also trained in how to handle a cancer patient. “She started practicing zumba. We have done radio therapy about 23 times, now we should do a pediscan to show the whole body if the cancer has come out or if there is a little left,” he explained.
The rapper went viral in May this year after a video of him working as a construction worker was leaked online.
Later on, he revealed that he had tried to keep it a secret for about a year. Kenyans would then donate a lot of money for him after the revelation that he was struggling.
BY MOSES SAGWE