{"id":53580,"date":"2022-02-02T16:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=53580"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:40:54","slug":"kayunga-burial-conductor-acquires-celebrity-status-gets-manager-body-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kayunga-burial-conductor-acquires-celebrity-status-gets-manager-body-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayunga burial conductor acquires celebrity status, gets manager, body guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">By Fred Muzale<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">Doors for Godfrey Jjemba, the sensational Kayunga burial conductor have continued to open with many garment and fashion designers in the country donating designer suits and gomesis (traditional dresses) to him and his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">The latest donation comes after he received 30 bags of cement, a solar system, flat television screen, two mobile phones, a radio, floor tiles, sand, a community radio system and an unspecified amount of cash. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">69-year-old Jjemba, a resident of Mbulakati village in Kitimbwa sub-county has also augmented his personal security after he got a body guard, who also acts as his manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cI am now a celebrity I need someone to protect my life and to manage my transactions,\u201d a jovial Mr Jjemba boasted during an interview at his home in Mbulakati village, Kitimbwa sub-county on Wednesday<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">The vocal Jjemba, who was flanked by his bodyguard\/manager, Mr God Ssempijja, said the four suits and two pairs of designer shoes were donated to him recently by JB\u2019s Tailored Fashionz, a local company based in Kampala that makes and sells men\u2019s suits and other garments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cRecently I received a phone call from an unknown caller who identified himself to be from JB\u2019s tailored Fashionz,\u201d Mr Jjemba said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cHe (caller) said he wanted to dress me and my wife. He sent Shs60,000 transport money by mobile money and the following day, my manager took us to Ntinda, where we were given brand new clothes. My wife Joyce Nakabazzi was given three gomesis and money to sew them,\u201d \u00a0he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">He said that the suits and gomesis given to him and his wife were meant to help him suit his current celebrity status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">Mr Jjemba said that he decided to get a manager who also acts as his body guard, because there were many people who had started to use him for their selfish interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cSome business owners and companies had started using me to advertise their merchandise for free but right now, whoever wants to use me in his advertisement he\/she has to deal with my manager. I am an old man. I don&#8217;t know things of advertisements,\u201d Mr Jjemba said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">Mr Jjemba says Mr Ssempijja, who is his manager, is his relative, who was living in\u00a0Mukono district but has since last month started to live with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">Mr Ssempijja now lives in a small grass thatched house next to his boss\u2019s house which was previously his (Jjemba\u2019s) kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">In recent videos that showed him in deep love \u00a0with a younger \u201clover\u201d that went viral on social media, Mr Jjemba explained that the lady \u2018lover\u2019 was given to him by Spa mania management at Freedom City in Kampala after he underwent massage at the facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cThe Spamania \u00a0management took me to their massage facility along Entebbe road, where they massaged me and did a lot of things on my body to make me fit and suitable for the celebrity status,\u201d Mr JJemba said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cAfter the massage, one of the staff at the facility handed me a young lady and claimed the young girl loved me. I laughed off the claims well knowing it was a mere stunt only aimed at painting a picture of celebrity life to the people,\u201d Mr Jjemba explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">He added that as a \u201dbright man\u201d, he started pretending to be in love with the lady \u00a0by \u00a0touching her as onlookers took videos and pictures of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"14pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"18.66666603088379\">\u201cMy wife is here\u201d Mr Jjemba said as he pointed at Ms Joyce Nakabazzi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Fred Muzale Doors for Godfrey Jjemba, the sensational Kayunga burial conductor have continued to open with many garment and fashion designers in the country donating designer suits and gomesis (traditional dresses) to him and his wife. The latest donation comes after he received 30 bags of cement, a solar system, flat television screen, two mobile phones, a radio, floor tiles, sand, a community radio system and an unspecified amount of cash. \u00a0 69-year-old Jjemba, a resident of Mbulakati village in Kitimbwa sub-county has also augmented his personal security after he got a body guard, who also acts as his manager. \u201cI am now a celebrity I need someone to protect my life and to manage my transactions,\u201d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":53581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}