“What’s the deal with Uganda?” – Nigerians respond to Rexxie’s detention in Uganda

Ugandan immigration officials have detained Rexxie, the producer of the widely popular song “Abracadabra.” Uganda is an East African country.

Today, Monday, March 11, 2024, the award-winning producer and DJ Ezeh Chisom Faith, better known by his stage name Rexxie, announced on social media that he had been detained by Ugandan immigration officials.

The producer asked well-meaning Nigerians to provide him the support and assistance he would need, even if it hasn’t been confirmed why or how the remaining material was created.

The reports of the arrest sparked numerous reactions on social media, and here are some of the reactions below:

This is not the first time the Ugandan authorities would be arresting a Nigerian artist or producer as the Grammy award-winning singer Tems and the ‘SOSO‘ crooner Omah Lay were also arrested as far back as 2020.

Speaking on the arrest in 2020 Tems stated, “We didn’t break the [COVID-19] rules. It was basically like a set up. We went to Uganda, I had a show there. It was during COVID year but they had opened things up that time. They had just had a rally in Uganda. People were going out. It wasn’t on lockdown. It was the aftermath.

“And the organisers said they had the permit, they sent us the permit. Everything was cool. And went there and there is this particular artist, I’m not sure now what his role was but he was just busy threatening Nigerian artists that they shouldn’t come. And after the show, the police came. They weren’t in uniforms. They just knocked on my hotel room. My manager and I were eating lunch or dinner. And they just came and said we should follow them and my manager was like he would go with them.

“So, he went with them. But they came back upstairs to pick me up. So, it was like who called them? Later, I found out that there was some weird… That was so scary. I spent two nights in prison. I thought I wasn’t gonna come out. I thought maybe I was going through it for a reason. I was like maybe this is for me to help the people in prison. It was crazy, I ain’t gonna lie. I was settling in because I adapt real quick.”

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