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When benga star Wilson Omutere Ongaro aka Sukuma bin Ongaro belted his evergreen hit Kila Siku Suku (why always me?), fans gyrating to his scintillating guitar and hilarious lyrics would never have guessed that he wasn’t singing about kids, stealing his cassava as the song may have suggested.
Apparently, he was lamenting about his ‘sons’ (young men from his village) seducing and marrying some of his wives. “Abana baikholela obwononi (my children have sinned against me),” he lamented, saying he had been made a fool.
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