Singer Barnaba thrills in creativity prize gala

15Apr 2016
The Guardian Reporter
The Guardian
Singer Barnaba thrills in creativity prize gala

RENOWNED singer and guitarist Barnaba Elias was the toast of the day during the dinner to award this year’s winners of multiple creativity Total Start upper challenge in Dar es Salaam early this week.

Barnaba Elias

Barnaba who is well known for songs like Milele Daima and Nambembelezwa was simply the centre of attraction and he brought the packed hall of invited guests that included Minister of State in the President Office, Public Service Management and Good governance Angela Kairuki.

From the word go, Banarba left no stone unturned with his guitar dishing out some of his best songs which kept the patrons singing along with him.

Speaking after the show Minister Kairuki challenged the youth in the country to be more innovative and creative to help in the growth of economy.

She said everywhere in the world creativity and innovative are key to economic development.

The winners of this year’s event are Iddi Kalembo, Mercy Kitomali and Krantz Mwamtepele who respectively received 35m/-, 20m/- and 15m/- cash prizes.

“ We are proud of you our winners, I am asking you to look at the big picture embrace creativity and innovative so that you can prosper in your respective endeavours, we are paying tribute to young men and women who raised to the occasion and participate in this year’s start upper of the year by Total challenge” she said.

On his remarks managing director of Total Tarik Moudaddal hailed all the people who participated in the event, he said his company started the event after noting that the country has many unemployed youth.

“Seeing that many African youth are unemployed Total decided to help them by introducing this award, we hope that the youth will use the money to improve their lives by opening new business, ” he said.

First winner of the awards Kalembo thanked the company and asked it to continue running the awards so that many young people can benefit .

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