A viral video of a woman allegedly slapping her child for resembling his father was already disturbing enough. Then the father started talking — and what came out was something far darker than anyone anticipated.
Ugandan singer Derrick Biswanka has broken his silence, and the account he is giving goes well beyond the clip that set social media on fire. He is describing a pattern of violence, hired attacks, and threats so specific they have driven him to appeal directly to the police for intervention.
This is not a celebrity breakup story. According to Biswanka, this is a safety emergency — for him, and for his child.
But that is not even the most alarming part. Because while the internet was still processing the slapping video, his baby mama allegedly issued him a fresh threat. One that involved being buried alive.
Biswanka says the trouble with his baby mama did not begin with the viral clip. He alleges it has been building for some time, and at least once, it turned physically violent against him.
He claims that after one of his performances, she allegedly orchestrated an attack by hiring a group of men who ambushed him. “One time when I was coming from a show, she plotted a gang of thugs to attack me, and they beat me up,” he said. “I was traveling in a car that I had hired, and it was vandalized. The guys who attacked me were asking me why I had slept with their girlfriend.”
The framing of the attack — men confronting him over a woman — suggests it was designed to look like something other than what Biswanka believes it was. He is alleging it was coordinated. A setup dressed up as a confrontation.
And then things got really interesting — because when the child abuse video went viral and Biswanka tried to address it with her directly, he says the response was not remorse. It was escalation.
“When I talked to her about my child’s saga, she warned me that she is capable of hiring gangs to attack me again and bury me alive,” he revealed. “She told me that she wants to see me lose hope and regret why I was born.”
Those are not the words of someone de-escalating a co-parenting dispute. Biswanka clearly understands that too. “So, dealing with such a person is difficult,” he said. “That’s why the police should intervene.”
The story begins with a video that stopped Uganda’s social media in its tracks. Footage emerged allegedly showing Biswanka’s baby mama slapping their young child — with the disturbing claim that the beating was triggered by the child’s physical resemblance to his father.
The clip spread rapidly and drew immediate condemnation. Among the most vocal voices calling for accountability was Balaam Barugahara, former State Minister for Youth and Children Affairs, who publicly demanded the woman face consequences for her actions.
Derrick Biswanka is a Ugandan musician whose name became entangled in a public crisis the moment that video began circulating. What he has since revealed suggests the crisis has roots that stretch back much further than anyone watching from the outside could have known.
His baby mama has not publicly responded to his allegations at the time of this report. The Pop Radar will update this story as it develops.
Fans immediately noticed that Biswanka’s public statement felt less like a media appearance and more like a cry for help. The internet had thoughts, and they were not holding back.
Within hours of his account spreading online, comment sections divided between those demanding immediate police action and those calling for child protection authorities to step in and prioritise the welfare of the child at the centre of it all.
The buried alive threat in particular circulated widely — screenshot after screenshot — with users expressing visible alarm that a man was describing credible, specific threats to his life in what appeared to be a co-parenting dispute gone catastrophically wrong.
Some fans believe the authorities need to treat Biswanka’s allegations with the same urgency the public applied to the child abuse video. Both situations involve the same person. Both involve alleged harm. It’s unclear why one attracted immediate calls for accountability while the other is still waiting for a formal response from police.
Others are raising broader questions about how Uganda’s systems protect men who report domestic threats and violence — noting that the public conversation has so far focused almost entirely on the child, with Biswanka’s personal safety receiving far less attention.
Sources close to the matter suggest the family is hoping that going public will accelerate a formal investigation.
At the core of this story, past the threats and the viral clips and the social media outrage, is a child. A young boy who was allegedly struck because of who his father is — and who is growing up in the middle of whatever this situation has become.
Biswanka’s decision to speak publicly reads as desperation as much as disclosure. He is not just telling his story. He is asking someone with authority to step in before it gets worse. For him. And for his son.
Here is the sentence that Uganda’s internet is not going to stop talking about: a woman allegedly slapped her child for looking like his father, then allegedly threatened to have that same father buried alive when he dared to bring it up.
If the police needed a reason to intervene — Biswanka just gave them several.
Derrick Biswanka has done what many in his position would not — he has gone on record, named the threat, and called for help publicly.
Now the question sitting in every comment section is the same one he is clearly asking himself: will anyone actually listen before something worse happens? Drop your thoughts below — because this conversation is far from over.