Boni Khalwale at a past press conference. [Photo| the-star]Former Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale has hit out at the government after the death of Kenya's popular musician Gabriel Omolo. The lunch time hit-maker passed on on Wednesday while receiving treatment at the Busia County, Teaching Referral Hospital where he was admitted on Tuesday following a long illness. The veteran musician became the first Kenyan musician to be awarded an international gold disc for the sales of his single ‘Lunchtime’ with 150,000 copies sold in September 1974.Through a social media post on Thursday, Khalwale said the original Kenyan music died the day the government branded artists like the late Omolo as 'wakora' and denied them state support. "Original Kenyan music died the day these great artists were branded wakora & denied state support," the politician tweeted.
Omolo died at age 79.