{"id":1797,"date":"2012-02-13T07:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T07:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kidum-critic-released-from-detention\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T07:48:36","slug":"kidum-critic-released-from-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kidum-critic-released-from-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidum Critic Released From Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1299 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuhanzi_bangy_aririmba-0eb44.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Cedric Bangirimana (photo above) a veteran musician also known as Bangy, has been set free after a week in police detention in Burundi capital Bunjumbura for ridiculing Kidum.}}<\/p>\n<p>Bangy is alleged to have mocked Kidum  during a live radio interview hosted by RPA Radio, where he criticized Kidum for staying longer in Bunjumbura  because he lacked bus fare to travel to Kenya where he resides.<\/p>\n<p>After Bangy uttered the words on radio, Kidum is alleged to have alerted police on the matter and they immediately arrested Bangy after the entertainment talk show and the reporter who was interviewing Bangy was fired on spot by the station manager.<\/p>\n<p>Bangy a former band member of the late Christophe Matata boasts of  being a veteran musician and is known for making public statements that undermine Kidum  trashing him as &#8216;just an underground musician whose music hasn\u2019t reached the professional level&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the criticism, Kidum\u2019s advisor Pacifique Ahmed noted that those undermining Kidum are like kicks of a dying horse who are jealous of Kidum\u2019s progress especially with his growing popularity within the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because Bangy is a veteran musician doesn\u2019t give him the right to disrespect other musicians most of whom are better than him by far,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Kidum a Burundian musician based in Kenya spends less time in Bunjumbura and recently he spent almost a month conducting a music talent search competition dubbed as Ten in One. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Cedric Bangirimana (photo above) a veteran musician also known as Bangy, has been set free after a week in police detention in Burundi capital Bunjumbura for ridiculing Kidum.}} Bangy is alleged to have mocked Kidum during a live radio interview hosted by RPA Radio, where he criticized Kidum for staying longer in Bunjumbura because he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}