Gospel artiste and comedian Abel Chungu won this year’s Most Outstanding Comedian for Ngoma Awards and his victor was received with mixed reactions and utmost social media backlash. Many people reacted by saying he didn’t deserve to win in this category with a few coming to his rescue mostly his fellow celebrities.
Abel Chungu was competing with popularly comedians “Mwanachingwala” and Bashi Mumbi in the same category. Surprising, Abel Chungu who is mostly known for his music scooped the trophy and many claimed he snubbed the other contestants.
However, Abel Chungu came through to speak for himself in an interview with Dj Showstar. The artiste emphasized that he has been doing comedy for 8 years now and his team from Night of Laughter submitted his work. He further explained that after work is submitted to Ngoma Awards through National Artist Council, a team from The Comedy Association of Zambia headed by some renowned comedians like Bob Mukosha adjudicates the work and picks what they think are some of the best works, these are put under nomination and people are invited to vote. Hence for this year Abel Chungu got the most votes beating his other two counterparts in the said category.