By Mulengera Reporters
The 28-year old popular NMG presenter on both KFM radio and NTV, Faiza Fabz (real name Faiza Salima) broke the record (on Tuesday) being the very first celebrity to prominently take part in Uganda’s version of Gen Z protests against Parliament corruption.
Along with three other fellow protesters and co-social media influencers, Faiza Fabs was quickly arraigned before the Magistrates Court at Nakawa where they ironically were charged with idle & disorderly charges and remanded to Luzira up to Tuesday 30th. This same charge is something Gen Museveni sometime back publicly decampaigned as too colonial and directed the judicial system to totally disregard it.
Being a big-name celebrity the locking up of Fabz attracted notorious condemnation by Ugandans on social media and in the process generated a lot of publicity for day one of Uganda’s anti-corruption protests which saw leading pundits shun NBS TV on grounds that its moderators are trivial and too biased and are out to merely trivialize the protests by young Ugandans. See more hereunder https://mulengeranews.com/top-mak-law-don-declines-nbs-interview-saying-they-ask-very-fake-unhelpful-questions/.
PROFILE:
But who is Faiza Fabz whose detention has attracted so much anti-Parliament uproar on social media? She was born on March 20, 1996 to Salim Saleh Ahmed and Rashida Awal for whom she is the 6th born. She is a Ugandan of Arab descent who, like Zari Hassan, grew up in Jinja. Besides the radio and TV work, she is also a famous events MC.
She grew up in Jinja at whose Main Street primary school she started out before joining PMM Girls in Jinja for her O-level. She had her A’level at St Kizito SS in Bugolobi Kampala. Thereafter, she enrolled at Kampala International University for a degree in Mass Communication. She is a planned child who partly was born and raised in the upscale Kampala neighborhood of Bugolobi.
A born writer, Fabs likes expressing herself through ranting out her frustrations on social media where she is a remarkable influencer. She started using writing to express herself as early as 16 years and would contribute to her school and community magazine. Then during her holidays, she would do some part time work with the Buzz platform especially under their PR department.
While at Buzz, she interacted with several media personalities who helped polish her storytelling capabilities. She is also an avid reader from which she derives some degree of sophistication. 
She is also highly opinionated which is why she embraced the idea of a purely citizens protest against rampant corruption at Parliament and other government institutions. She believes she has a duty to participate in such as opposed to sitting home and leaving it to politicians. She is also deeply spiritual and believes in all people being treated fairly. Having been orphaned early on in life, Fabz paid her own school fees through hassling here and there.
She likes taking herself as an ordinary person (Muntu wawansi) which is why she uses boda-bodas mostly as opposed to priding herself in owning her own car. Her loyalty to boda riding paid off when Safe Boda gave her some brand ambassadorial gig. She is a single lady and with no child, an attribute shared by many protestors in the Uganda’s latest protest movement.
She takes long to get into adult relationships because she hates dating merely for fun. She also likes cooking though very picky which explains why she prefers being single, according to a close pal.
Being a morning show host on KFM, Fabz is an early riser because she has to be at work as early as 5am. Company vehicle picks her and uses Safe Boda back home. Before KFM where she has done three years now, she worked with Urban TV and XFM for three years. She also did some gig with UBC’s Magic 1 HD. She also one time did work with Kunta Productions as a project coordinator.
She credits legendary KFM Manager Joseph Beyanga (retired recently) for radio career success because he generously mentored her through NMG’s Media Challenge Initiative media hub.
The great follower and reader of Jane Austen, Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe’s writings sometimes regrets the three years she spent at the KIU journalism school because she realizes much of what she was exposed to hasn’t yet had any relevance at her work place.
She keeps signing on endorsement deals because big brands want to leverage her outspokenness and impressive traffic on social media. She’s done work with Safe Boda, Tusker Cider and MTN Pulse. She is a liberal-minded Muslim who won’t hesitate to engage in some mild drinking as would be required of an effective brand ambassador. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [whatsapp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at [email protected]).
