Artist Salah Brown: I do not know where the artists’ pension disappeared

Sudan Events – Magda Hassan

Artist Salah Brown said that artists live in extremely bad conditions, “Everyone who asks about the condition of creative people in these miserable circumstances, we raise our hat to him out of respect and appreciation for this noble stance that those responsible for the condition of creative people have failed to do.” He added.

Pension for artists:

“If memory does not fail me, former President Omar Al-Bashir issued a decision granting an exceptional pension to artists, singers and musicians, for those over sixty years of age. I thought that the decision would include all creative people in all fields of creativity, but unfortunately it has become limited to the Professions Syndicate.” Brown said in an interview with Al-Ahdath.

The lucky ones were their close friends and loved ones, while others were lost and were in real need of this pension. Despite the problem of discrimination and the weakness of the pension itself, we heard that it comes once and falls due to circumstances of which we have no knowledge.” He added.

Brown confirmed that the artists’ pension was built on the basis that those who were over sixty years old at that time and had no professions other than singing were in a critical situation that deserved for the state to stand beside them and take care of them. He confirmed that after the revolution he had no knowledge of what happened with regard to the pension and where it was going.