It was tears and grief as musicians and thousands of mourners gathered to send off Northern Uganda music legend, Ogwang Benard popularly known by stage names as Beniman Mzeeb 2stars on Saturday at Ngai in Oyam district to attend his burial.
Beniman Mzeeb 2stars, 40 breathed his last on Wednesday morning at Uganda Cancer Institute where he had been admitted after battling with cancer for two years.
Though several artists and politicians from different parties were in attendance, police fired teargas to disperse People's Power team who joined mourners to send off the singer to rest in peace claiming that the burial of Mzeeb 2stars is not a place for holding a campaign.
Speaking at the funeral, Beniman manager's Ghetto Prince accused Beniman parents of abandoning their own biological son when he was fighting for his life in the sickbed at Mulago Cancer Institute.
According to Ghetto Prince, Beniman told him in January 2019 after his condition worsened that he doesn't have any brother, father, mother in life and he is everything to him and when he died, he should take him home and lay him rest in the grave and after his grave is well covered that is were they friendships end of which he can make his way out of the burial place which he did as directed by deceased.
"Ghetto Prince, if you are still alive make sure that my daughter Akello Eunice, son Junior and other children doesn't suffer'' Manager Ghetto Prince revealed what Beniman told him before his death.
"We have worked and fought big wars with Beniman, Beniman had nothing in life when he died on Wednesday. There is always a way that the late also left properties but he had nothing much left" he concluded.
