{"id":11641,"date":"2018-06-18T05:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2018-06-17T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T14:49:33","slug":"another-loss-to-the-entertainment-industry-city-comedian-king-kong-mc-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/another-loss-to-the-entertainment-industry-city-comedian-king-kong-mc-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Loss to The Entertainment Industry: City Comedian King Kong MC Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment industry in Uganda has lost yet another talented soul. Comedian and dancer , King Kong has passed on.<\/p>\n<p>Real names Hassan Ssempala, the stage pro is said to have died on Sunday after succumbing to a fever. His body, which was at a clinic around his home in kanyanya\u00a0 was moved\u00a0 to Mulago hospital for postmortem.<span class=\"_5mfr _47e3\">There were earlier reports that King Kong had gotten Malaria, but there is still no evidence that this could have been the direct cause of his death.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11644\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Kong MC, doing his thing in comedy. May his soul rest in peace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5>KING KONG INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT<\/h5>\n<p>Drama was his main thing, and he was never shy to pull off any performances. King Kong rose to the scene four years ago, taking the whole country by storm. He was unfortunately involved in a fatal accident, that injured and broke some of his bones. Many close friends say that he has had complications ever since this unfortunate happening.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;King Kong Mc, it was\u00a0 a great opportunity to have met and worked with you. You became a friend and a brother to me and my family,&#8221; Eva Mbabazi, his long time manager wrote on her wall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May his soul rest in eternal peace. Here is a video of his timeless talent.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comedians dancing to MARIAROZA by EDDY KENZO.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5meBNh9UELo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment industry in Uganda has lost yet another talented soul. Comedian and dancer , King Kong has passed on. Real names Hassan Ssempala, the stage pro is said to have died on Sunday after succumbing to a fever. His body, which was at a clinic around his home in kanyanya\u00a0 was moved\u00a0 to Mulago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":11648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[9036],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tvmovies","tag-king-kong-mc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}