News reaching our desk is that Uganda Tourism Board’s Tulambule campaign is in jeopardy after J Kazoora failed to pay influencers their money.
Tulambule is a campaign that was started to promote domestic tourism in partnership with the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB).
This comes after a group of Digital Marketing group known as influencers were not paid their money yet they had done their job.
The influencers used their own money to pay for accommodation, food among others and they were never paid back.
Kazoora who promised Influencers Shs150,000 per day, end up paying them Shs50,000.
It is also believed that he abandoned the team in Gulu and came back to Kampala to have quality time with the slay queens.
Sources have revealed that there was a serious exchange of texts on a WhatsApp group and clearly Kazoora was mad with influencers who were demanding for their net pay worth Shs600,000 each for the 4 days.
Campus Bee quoted one of the strongly worded texts sent by an influencer;
“People learn to respect other people’s hustle. Digital marketing is what I do for a living and if I do work for you and you cannot respect my efforts it is okay. I can never lower my standards for something not worth my effort. Thank you, JK [Kazoora] for the experience but not all of us swallow bull shit. The money you are offering me does not even pay up for the money I paid people to help me push your gig. Let me count this as a loss and learning experience. I do not expect any money from you but this is likely to affect your brand and public image. The same energy we used to make tulambule trend can be used to something else.”
Kazoora replied (in the same WhatsApp group); “This boy is crazy… just talked to him and agreed … this is what we call career breaking moment.” before going ahead to calm down the furious influencers by offering to pay them shs200,000 each for the 4 days as opposed to shs600,000.
Hell broke loose as the influencers insisted that they should be paid the full amount that was agreed upon.
One of the influencers (names withheld) wrote (in the same WhatsApp group): “I got flue from the trip. I have so far spent 200K on medication.
So it beats my understanding that the 200K I have so far spent on my medication is what am supposed to get as payment. Then what did I go for??”
